Yemen's recognised government has doubled the US dollar exchange rate used to calculate customs duties on non-essential goods in areas under its control effective Monday, a senior government official...

An abandoned oil tanker has sunk off of Yemen’s Gulf of Aden, causing an oil slick along the country’s southern coast according to port officials.

Saudi Arabia's treatment of the children of former top intelligence officer, Saad Al-Jabri, has been slammed by Human Rights Watch (HRW) as a form of collective punishment. In a...

Saudi Arabia re-opened the Muslim holy sites for the Umrah pilgrimage as of Sunday, according to the state news agency SPA. "The Grand Mosque is ready to receive pilgrims...

Saudi-led coalition forces supporting the Yemeni government announced Sunday that bomb-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and a ballistic missile belonging to Houthi rebels were neutralised, reports Anadolu Agency. Iran-backed...

Saudi Arabia may send a representative to participate in the swearing-in ceremony for Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian newspaper Etemad reported. The newspaper quoted an informed source on Friday...

A senior official of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) threatened on Thursday to prevent the Yemeni government and parliament from meeting in the south of the country. Ahmed...

"Our tasks in the special unit of the Hajj and Umrah security force cover 3 main angles: security, organisation and humanitarian. This is in order to provide guests with safety and security and help them perform their worship smoothly and with ease."

Saudi Arabia has sent two planeloads of troops and armoured vehicles to Aden. The military aircraft landed at the southern port city's airport on Monday amid tight security by...

There was a time when football was just a beautiful game with 22 players kicking a leather ball from one end of the pitch to another while supporters cheered...

The bidding process for the hosting rights for the 2027 Asian Cup has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will be held in 2022 instead of this...

Over 600 people, including clergymen, MPs, political figures, and army officers, have attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bashar Al-Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus. He is now serving...

Saudi authorities targeted the phones of those close to journalist Jamal Khashoggi before and after his murder, a new investigation into the data leak of some 50,000 phone numbers selected for...

The notorious Israeli spyware developed by the NSO Group, Pegasus, is at the centre of an international scandal involving the alleged phone hacking of more than 180 journalists, lawyers,...

Pro-government commentators in Saudi Arabia are publicly criticising the United Arab Emirates' role in Yemen, a rare move that reflects political and economic tensions between the two Gulf allies...

Muslim pilgrims vaccinated against COVID-19 gathered on Sunday for the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, which has barred worshippers from abroad for a second year running due to...

Britain's role in fuelling the Saudi-led war in Yemen is much greater than earlier thought, according to a new report by the UK-based organisation Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)....

The Saudi Coast Guard has turned away three Egyptian tourist boats near the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi previously transferred to Saudi...

Former UK Chancellor Philip Hammond has taken up a job with Saudi Arabia's finance minister, sparking concerns over the level of access and influence the Gulf kingdom will have on Britain....

Last week, Saudi Satellite TV Channel Al Arabiya surprised its audience when it hosted Chief of Hamas Political Bureau abroad Khaled Meshaal. The last time a Hamas official was...

The Tunisian president has pledged to deliver coronavirus vaccines throughout the country, calling on politicians to stop exploiting the difficult circumstances of the pandemic. After receiving the first dose...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has ordered medical supplies be sent to Tunisia, including one million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, in response to a recent appeal by...

Two Yemeni policemen were killed in the south-eastern province of Hadramout on Saturday by unidentified gunmen, according to an official of the internationally-recognised government. "The unknown gunmen opened fire...

Despite running into choppy waters recently, the United Arab Emirates is cruising along the path of normalisation with Israel with Abu Dhabi expected to open its embassy in the...

New details of alleged torture of prominent political activists detained in Saudi prisons have emerged, confirming widespread abuse and mistreatment that were reported by rights groups and media agencies...

US lawyer Michael Sullivan has revealed that the former top aide of Jordanian King Abdullah II and head of his Royal Court Bassem Awadallah was tortured in prison, international...

Egypt resorted to the UN Security Council to solve the problem of the Renaissance Dam after it had exhausted all its efforts in futile negotiations that did nothing. As...

Oman's Sultan visited Saudi Arabia on Sunday on his first official overseas trip since assuming power last year, with talks expected to focus on the Yemen war and economic...

Saudi Arabia is staring at a gaping black hole in state-controlled pension funds so large that the Kingdom is having to take drastic counter-measures, including the raising of the...

The American and French ambassadors to Lebanon conducted a rare visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday, in efforts to come up with a solution to the country's political and economic...

Saudi Arabia is working on creating a digital news platform and a studio in Washington DC as part of the kingdom's efforts to exert political pressure on the White...

Saudi Arabia is concerned about increased nuclear activities by Iran which threaten regional security, a Saudi Foreign Ministry official said, after Tehran started the process of producing enriched uranium....