Tag: Middle East

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will hold a referendum on statehood in September, its presidency said Wednesday, despite opposition to independence ...

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah met Emirati officials in Dubai on Wednesday, a day after holding talks in Saudi ...

Turkey's parliament will debate on Wednesday a bill that would allow its troops to be deployed to a Turkish base ...

A senior Emirati official insisted on Wednesday that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha, as tensions ...

Gunmen and a suicide bomber have carried out apparently coordinated attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of revolutionary founder ...

US President Donald Trump has called the king of Saudi Arabia to urge Gulf unity amid an escalating dispute over ...

Syria's Kurds were once a marginalised minority, but now they are leading the charge for the Islamic State group's Raqa ...

American tourism companies are seeing early signs that US President Donald Trump's still-young administration is hitting foreign visits and fear ...

US intelligence officials believe Russian hackers planted a false news story that led Saudi Arabia and several allies to sever ...

Qatar must "change their policies" and stop supporting "extremist groups", the Saudi foreign minister said Tuesday in Paris, a day ...

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday accused US President Donald Trump of stirring up conflicts in the Middle East ...

In a series of morning tweets, President Donald Trump threw Washington's relations with Doha into deep crisis on Tuesday and ...

Here are the main developments that led to the unprecedented crisis between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours: On May 20, ...

Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Tuesday Saudi Arabia's decision to shut its office in the kingdom as part of the diplomatic ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed credit for the pressure being placed on Qatar by Gulf neighbours who accuse it ...

A Saudi-led diplomatic and economic blockade against Qatar may threaten food imports but the tiny emirate still has a lifeline ...

US President Donald Trump Tuesday linked Arab moves to isolate Qatar to his recent Middle East trip, showing little sympathy ...

A ban on Qatari flights imposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies took effect Tuesday as first efforts were made ...

Egypt is closing its airspace to Qatari planes in a growing diplomatic row, with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain expected to ...

The Philippines on Tuesday halted the deployment of workers to Qatar as the gas-rich Gulf state grappled with a diplomatic ...