Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the UAE's de facto ruler, will visit Turkey for the first time in years, as the regional rivals work to...

Kuwait's Crown Prince has been asked to carry out some of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah's constitutional duties on a temporary basis, state news agency, KUNA. said on Monday,...

Yemeni forces under a Saudi-led coalition said on Friday they have withdrawn from around the main port of Hodeidah held by their foes, the Houthis, as the Red Sea...

Democratic US Representative, Ilhan Omar, filed legislation on Friday seeking to block the sale of $650 million air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, the first major arms sale to the...

The United States and Qatar have agreed that Qatar will represent the diplomatic interests of the United States in Afghanistan, a senior US official told Reuters, an important signal...

Iran will adopt an uncompromising stance when it resumes nuclear talks with major powers, betting it has the leverage to win wide sanctions relief in return for curbs on...

Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia's coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon,...

In his eighties, Mohammed Hadi Al-Harmali has been uprooted four times by shifting frontlines during the seven years of Yemen's brutal civil war. Out of money and bedridden with...

Already mired in economic collapse, Lebanon is facing a blast of Gulf Arab anger after a prominent broadcaster-turned-minister levelled blunt criticism at Saudi Arabia, in a row that has...

Mona Al-Khurais has loved guns ever since as a young girl her father took her on hunting trips in Saudi Arabia and taught her how to shoot. Five years...

After dawn prayers Hatim Ali Hadi dons his tracksuit and heads to a park in the Yemeni capital Sanaa for group exercise sessions which help take people's minds off...

His motorbike's tank almost empty, Ahmad had barely enough fuel to make one more delivery and get home for the night. When the 24-year-old Syrian's phone pinged with a...

In a square in central Fez, the steady beat of hammers on copper has returned – a welcome signal for the ancient Moroccan city's thousands of artisans that trade...

Lebanese psychologist, Bernard Sousse, started offering online therapy sessions when patients said that surging fuel prices meant they could no longer drive in to see him—but then the power...

London's High Court has ruled that Dubai's leader Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum ordered the hacking of the phones of his ex-wife and those close to her as part...

Iraq holds a general election on 10 October, its fifth parliamentary vote since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and ushered in a complex multi-party system contested by groups...

Souad Hdidou is challenging social norms and busting stereotypes from behind the wheel as the only female taxi driver in the Moroccan capital Rabat and one of a few...

Majed Sait and his wife are spending their honeymoon on a cruise in the turquoise waters off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, a voyage that is still a novelty...

Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the world's top diplomats have been beating a path to Qatar, long the gateway to the Taliban and now the essential go-between as the...

"Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq. For the environmental activist, the reason the...

At the Sidi Bahri market in Tunis, shoppers were pleased with the president's attacks on corruption and high prices since he seized control of the government last month in...

Philippine national Maya and her husband lost their low-paying jobs in the United Arab Emirates early in the coronavirus pandemic and with it their work visas and health insurance....

Plans to raise the price of bread for the first time in 44 years have shocked Egyptians already struggling to get by in a country where state-subsidised loaves have...

For Beirut blast survivor Shady Rizk, time has stopped since 4 August last year when a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate exploded in the Lebanese capital's port opposite his...

Lebanon is grappling with a deep economic crisis after successive governments piled up debt following the 1975-1990 civil war with little to show for their spending binge. Banks, central to the...

Jordanian COVID-19 survivor Abdullah Bashiti still suffers disturbing flashbacks from his time in intensive care. One of the most vivid is a vision of his doctors holding their hands...

In Libya's Bani Walid, flags of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi still fly in some places and streets are ragged with neglect, but its residents have new hope for their...

Mining companies awarded blocks in Egypt's Eastern Desert are set to start exploring for gold under a legislative overhaul that seeks eventually to unlock vast untapped mineral resources. Despite...

The family of a former top Saudi intelligence official who is living in exile and locked in an international feud with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman say they have...

For 35-year-old Nour Al-Sabah Mohammed and her crew of bakers, business is brisk during the holy month of Ramadan. The women travel by train to Cairo to sell their...

The price of the popular salad Fattoush has tripled with the cost of its ingredients increasing 210% since Ramadan 2020 according to the American University of Beirust's ‘Fattoush Index’

The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia's Tigray region, claiming it...