More than 20,000 Pakistani workers stuck in the United Arab Emirates are seeking to return home, as the Gulf Arab state tightens restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak. As...

The UAE has waived rental and maintenance fees worth millions of dollars for the use of its giant London Excel centre which has been converted into a 4,000-bed emergency...

A leading member of the Houthi movement yesterday announced that he expects the liberation of Marib province to be achieved soon. Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti is the Deputy Speaker of the...

The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) has announced that the UAE has made an official request to postpone the Expo 2020 Dubai scheduled to take place in October due...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday issued an exemption for holders of expired residency visas, saying they will not be fined. The decision was announced during a remote cabinet...

Dubai imposed a two-week lockdown Saturday night and Saudi Arabia sealed off parts of the Red Sea city of Jeddah as Gulf states tightened measures in big cities to...

The United Arab Emirates has extended its night-time curfew indefinitely to disinfect public areas to fight the spread of coronavirus, the state-run news agency WAM and Reuters reported late...

Twitter yesterday removed 7,800 fake accounts linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE for violating its policies and being a “targeted attempt to undermine the...

Tunisian social media sites, quoting Libyan websites, circulated a video of officers belonging to retired Major General Khalifa Haftar’s militias threatening Tunisia and its people. Haftar’s followers, who seem...

In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...

Developer Emaar Properties said on Tuesday it had suspended construction of a residential tower in a prime Dubai location near the world’s tallest building, showing how the coronavirus is...

American Singer Della Miles has donated to Turkey after President Erdogan’s national call to fight the coronavirus late Monday, Ihlas News Agency reported. Turkey’s president launched a National Solidarity...

In an interview with Al Jazeera, the resigned Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh Al-Jabwani, said that he had confronted the United Arab Emirates because he realised early its destructive...

Militants loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen are reported to have stormed into the southern port of Aden and stolen medical aid donated by the...

Organisers of Expo 2020 Dubai on Monday backed a proposal to postpone the event for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came after a meeting between...

Law firm Stoke White has filed evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity said to have been committed in Yemen. The firm made the submissions in three jurisdictions...

Demand for Middle East jet fuel is forecast to tumble by a record amount this year as COVID-19 restricts travel, the London-based international energy company S&P Global Platts reported....

Yemeni activists have slammed Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed for suspending the Yemeni Minister of Transport Saleh Al-Jubwani, who is known for his opposition to the UAE’s intervention in...

Saudi Arabia extended its lockdown by suspending entry and exit from Jeddah on Sunday amid the coronavirus outbreak, while announcing four new deaths due to the pandemic, which has...

All fighting groups in Yemen have agreed to a nationwide ceasefire due to the coronavirus outbreak after a call last Wednesday from the UN secretary-general for an immediate end...

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday extended to April 5 a nightly curfew to sterilise public places to combat the spread of coronavirus as neighbouring Qatar reported its first...

Libya’s UN-recognized government said Saturday it has detected the arrival of three military cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to an airbase controlled by warlord Khalifa Haftar...

Iran has now been officially struggling with COVID-19 for over a month. Even before SARS-CoV-2 (known as coronavirus) made its grand entrance into Iran, the country was embattled by...

The UAE has ordered residents to stay at home for three nights to embark on a mass deep cleaning drive to sterilise public areas as far as possible in...

Exactly five years ago, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out its first air strikes on Yemen in an effort to reinstate the disgraced, exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi....

Security Belt Forces, backed by the UAE, continue to block shipments of medical equipment sent by WHO to fight coronavirus in Yemeni areas liberated from the Houthis, Yemen Portal...

Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of Operation Decisive Storm against the Houthis in Yemen. The operation was launched at dawn on 26 March, 2015, with the...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Wednesday for: “The warring parties in Yemen to immediately cease hostilities and do their best to counter the possible spread of...

Activists on the Yemeni island of Socotra have condemned the fact that flights by the UAE’s Emirates airline are continuing despite the spread of the Covid-19 virus. It has...

Italian energy company Eni said on Tuesday that it is reviewing its energy projects in the Middle East because of the coronavirus outbreak and current oil market conditions. The...

US and UAE militaries ignore coronavirus fears and stage a joint military exercise

Residents in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states are urging telecom firms to further ease restrictions on free internet calls as coronavirus separates families and forces people...