Tag: Middle East

Dubai authorities are grappling with new ways of keeping the emirate's skies safe after drones halted air traffic at one ...

So-called Islamic State (IS) will never be defeated unless the corrupt conditions that help it to thrive are addressed, a ...

Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia are seeking the death penalty for a suspect accused of opening fire on German diplomats, a ...

The U. S. military is not in Iraq "to seize anybody's oil", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from ...

France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met for the first time with a foreign head ...

Women have revealed the horrors they endured at the hands of ISIS sex slaves - despite being Sunni Muslims just ...

Iran on Monday criticised what it said was coordination between Israel and regional rival Saudi Arabia, describing attempts to create ...

Fighters from the Islamic State group, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni ...

Worldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by ...

The four-day International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) kicked off Sunday in Abu Dhabi with the United Arab Emirates announcing ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with Arab rulers last year to hear then US secretary of state John ...

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura on Sunday questioned US President Donald Trump's engagement in solving the Syrian conflict, just days ...

From a distance, there's little to suggest that the building at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara ...

For a long time now, the youth have been eager to start something for the betterment of their future, whether ...

The culture clash in "Bar Bahar" starts off when Nur, a veiled and conservative Muslim, moves into a flat with ...

Rescue workers from Syria's White Helmets -- the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary -- said on Saturday they have received ...

With a new leader in the White House bent on disrupting the status quo, could it also be time for ...

US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, his first trip to the Middle ...

Surrounded by the ruins of pastel-coloured buildings still bearing slogans glorifying the Islamic State's "caliphate", Wissam Ghanem is having a ...

In the aftermath of a barrel bomb attack in Syria's Idlib, nine-year-old Abdel Basset Al-Satuf tries to sit up, his ...