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US President Joe Biden has called on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers to increase their oil output to help stabilise prices, which have surged as a result of...

Talks to boost trade by approximately $2 billion a year between members of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and the UK are underway today in Riyadh but...

Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

The US and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led Terrorist Financing Targeting Centre (TFTC) yesterday designated 13 people and three entities on its terrorist financing list. The TFTC includes the US...

A number of officials revealed to NBC News that US President Joe Biden had postponed his planned trip to a number of countries in the Middle East. Biden had...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will not join the West in imposing sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said yesterday. "Aspects of...

Western governments are attempting to mobilise countries to protect the status quo using the Ukraine war as a pretext, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said yesterday during a visit...

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Saudi state media said, on a visit that Gulf officials said would feature a meeting with foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Al-Hajraf, yesterday welcomed the European Union's adoption of a Joint Communication on a Strategic Partnership with the Gulf. "The Gulf countries...

The Head of a political and economic union of Gulf countries held talks on Monday with the UN envoy to Yemen on efforts to end the eight-year conflict in...

Intra-Yemeni talks started on Wednesday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, under the auspices of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Anadolu News Agency reports. "Today's talks are closely followed up...

Former Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, warned Gulf states of the West's exploitation of their wealth without taking into consideration the region's interests. "The West...

The Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said yesterday that it is exercising "restraint" to make the intra-Yemen peace talks hosted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

Houthi officials have welcomed calls for dialogue with the Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Yemen, on the condition that the talks are held in a neutral country, Anadolu News Agency...

A Commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Tehrani Moghaddam has warned Gulf Arab rulers not to allow Israel to use their countries as launch pads for...

A Houthi official in Yemen has responded to media reports which claim that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) may invite the group for dialogue in Saudi Arabia. The move...

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Al-Hajraf, on the political consultation mechanism between...

Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, said his country will not accept compromising the security of the Gulf States, Anadolu News Agency reports. Tebboune met with members of the Algerian community...

Jordanian soldiers killed at least 27 armed smugglers yesterday and wounded others as they crossed the border from Syria during a dawn snowstorm with a large quantity of amphetamines,...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said yesterday that there is no "power vacuum" Middle East and is no need of a "foreign patriarch." Wang made the comments following a...

China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are moving towards establishing a strategic partnership, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and reported by Anadolu News Agency. "Both sides agreed...

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Al-Hajraf, yesterday met with Commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), Lieutenant-General Charles Cooper, to discuss ways of strengthening...

The 42nd Gulf summit is set to ick off on Tuesday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, following a "prosperous" year of reconciliation between most of the countries of the...

Egypt's Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, yesterday headed to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to inaugurate a so-called "political consultation mechanism" between Egypt and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The...

The first-ever dating app and website for Jews in Gulf countries have been launched, following the first Jewish wedding in over 50 years held in the Gulf island of Bahrain...

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Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...

Pakistan will pursue individual trade deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, a Pakistani official said on Sunday, as talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council remain...

The Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak yesterday called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states to hold an emergency conference to provide economic support to Yemen,...

After days of speculation over his whereabouts, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resurfaced in the UAE amidst allegation and bitter condemnation that the 72-year-old fled with some $169 million and...

Saudi Arabia has announced an amendment to rules governing imports from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, in what is being seen as a bid to challenge the UAE's status...

British MPs are calling on the government to suspend a "secretive" multi-million-pound funding programme to Gulf countries over concerns that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain may have channelled taxpayers' money...