Tag: Western Asia

The US government put 271 Syrian chemists and other officials on its financial blacklist Monday, punishing them for their presumed ...

Prominent Kuwaiti opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak called on Monday for national reconciliation to rescue the oil-rich Gulf state just days ...

Conflict in Syria has forced people to flee their homes Morocco and Algeria have become embroiled in a diplomatic row ...

French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim said Monday its chief executive Eric Olsen is stepping down following an internal investigation into the ...

Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead ...

After fleeing war in Syria and arriving in America with her family four months ago, for one day Mona Hafez ...

Canada announced new sanctions against Syria on Friday targeting officials and entities linked to the use of chemical weapons. The ...

Two men accused of fundraising and recruiting for the Islamic State group in India were sentenced to seven years in ...

A Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 has been freed and was being handed over to a ...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said during a visit to Israel Friday that there can be "no doubt" that Syria has ...

Foreigners will no longer be allowed to work in Saudi Arabia's numerous shopping malls, the labour ministry announced Thursday, in ...

US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and top brass in Cairo on Thursday, pledging ...

Israel is launching a diplomatic offensive against Palestinian calls for FIFA to impose sanctions over football clubs based in Jewish ...

Let me start by stating that I personally don’t know the former president, so this is not an article in ...

Chinese investors in Oman on Wednesday laid the first stone of an industrial zone in the sultanate's southern port town ...

Egyptian security forces killed a gunman suspected of shooting dead a policemen near St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, ...

France will produce proof "in a few days" that the regime of Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical strike on a ...

In a sign of the growing regional influence of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a close advisor to its foreign operations commander ...

St Catherine's monastery is located at the foot of Mount Sinai One policeman has been killed by gunmen who opened ...

A policeman was killed and four more were wounded on Tuesday in a shooting outside St Catherine's monastery in Egypt's ...