Israel will sign a free trade agreement with South Korea this week, marking the first such arrangement with an Asian market, Israel's economy ministry said on Sunday, Reuters reports....

Iranian authorities released on Friday the South Korean oil tanker seized in January amid a dispute over Iran's $7 billion frozen in Korean banks. The funds were frozen due...

The UAE's first nuclear power plant has started its commercial operations, the gulf state's officials announced yesterday. "The start of commercial operations at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant is...

Iran has agreed to allow the crew members of a South Korean ship it seized for alleged environmental pollution to leave the country, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said...

A move by South Korea towards releasing $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds may help spur Iran's judiciary to resolve the seizure of a Korean ship being held for...

South Korea's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun called on Qatar during his visit on Wednesday to help his country resolve the issue...

A South Korean delegation is heading to Iran on Wednesday to seek the release of a chemicals tanker and its 20-member crew seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces,...

Iran today seized a South Korean-flagged tanker which was reportedly heading for the UAE, media sources in the country reported. Local news sources said the vessel had been seized...

Iranian officials have accused the United States of thwarting its efforts to purchase the coronavirus vaccine, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The agency said Tehran hoped to use the billions of US dollars...

Iraqi Minister of Transport, Nasser Al-Shibli, said yesterday that Chinese companies have been providing services with regards to the implementation of the Al-Faw Grand Port project in the southern...

Iran called on Friday for South Korea to release billions of dollars in funds frozen because of US sanctions, Reuters reports. "South Korea's ban on Iran's use of its central bank...

Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended travel to and from nine coronavirus affected countries including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, according to an official source in the Interior Ministry....

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a "temporary precautionary measure" after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi yesterday criticised South Korea for plans to send military forces to the region, as well as for misnaming the Persian Gulf as the...

Oil market analysts must make sense of a bewildering array of statistics about production, consumption and inventories, compiled and published with varying definitions and degrees of accuracy and timeliness....

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement released three vessels and 16 people it had seized, South Korea's foreign ministry and a Houthi military source in Yemen said on Wednesday, reports Reuters....

The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Monday that the Iran-aligned Houthi movement had seized a vessel towing a South Korean drilling rig at the south end...

Korean boy band BTS defends its decision to perform in Riyadh after being attacked for it online

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has requested help from South Korea to strengthen the kingdom's air defence system, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. The request...

In what is being described as a first of its kind, Israel is set to sign a free trade deal with South Korea that excludes settlements in the occupied...

South Korea plans to join a US-led maritime force in the Middle East by sending a naval unit, which includes a destroyer, to help guard oil tankers sailing through...

Israel media have revealed that the new South Korea-Israel Free Trade agreement will exclude goods produced in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and West Bank and the Golan Heights....

Saudi Arabia's Military Industries (SAMI) announced, Sunday, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with three affiliate companies of Korea's Hanwha Group to establish a joint venture company...

Whenever I have visited Palestine and speak to Palestinians I am always asked, "Why doesn't the West care about our suffering?" It's a question that I try to avoid...

Ahead of his participation at the G20 summit in Japan, Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Thursday visited the weapon development agency of South Korea, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammed bin Salman "voiced...

South Korea plans to set up a joint nuclear energy research centre in Saudi Arabia, the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology said. The project aims to boost...

The United States demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions

Saudi Arabia will be hosting the G20 summit next year, state news agency SPA said WednesdayAnadolu reports. "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the 15th annual G20 Leaders' Summit...

Tunisia, South Korea and African Development Bank yesterday signed a deal to establish a training centre for drones used for data collection to the enhance management of agricultural projects,...

US senators from both parties on Tuesday asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry for details about recent approvals for companies to share nuclear energy information with Saudi Arabia, with the...

Three of eight countries granted waivers by Washington to import oil from Iran have now cut the imports to zero, a US official said on Tuesday, adding that improved...