Tag: Western Asia

President Donald Trump will play peacemaker at the White House on Wednesday, meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas as part ...

An FBI translator who was hired to spy on a German member of the Islamic State group instead apparently grew ...

Kuwaiti telecoms giant Zain's net profit rose slightly in the first quarter of 2017 due to difficulties in some regional ...

Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five ...

The Dubai government has announced the launch of 'Dubai Font' - the first typeface developed by Microsoft for a city. ...

A Doha court on Sunday upheld the death penalty in the retrial of a Qatari man convicted of murdering a ...

The Dubai government on Sunday announced the launch of "Dubai Font", the first typeface developed by Microsoft for a city, ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel landed in Saudi Arabia Sunday on a one-day official visit. She will hold talks with the ...

Lebanon launched a bike-sharing programme in its capital Beirut on Sunday, hoping to cut down on the congested city's notorious ...

A controversial meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led Europe's foremost human rights group to say it had no confidence ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Damascus is negotiating with regime ally Moscow to buy the latest Russian anti-missile system to ...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to ratchet up pressure on Russia to end sieges ...

A group of cyclists have embarked on a multi-day tour in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of ...

Syria on Thursday accused France of concealing the real identity of those behind a deadly suspected chemical attack, a day ...

Israeli archaeologists working on a major Roman-era port city on Wednesday unveiled new discoveries including an altar dedicated to Augustus ...

First Daughter Ivanka Trump is contradicting her father, the US president, insisting that allowing Syrian refugees to immigrate to the ...

A new round of peace talks between Yemen's warring sides should begin by the end of May, the UN mediator ...

A report by French intelligence services blames Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime for a suspected chemical attack in rebel-held Syria ...

As many as 1,000 Qatar World Cup construction workers are receiving health checks as part of a pilot programme agreed ...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday launched a fresh push southwest of Mosul to retake the Hatra area, which includes a UN-listed ...