The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

No war is “clean” and the war in Yemen “remains an ugly war”, the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs said yesterday. Speaking in response to questions regarding...

Thousands of mourners on Monday buried dozens of children killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in northern Yemen, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in...

A mother and her four-year-old-daughter have been released from a Dubai jail after being detained for drinking a “complimentary glass of wine” on-board a flight from London on 13...

The UAE has made an amendment to a 2012 Cyber Crime law, increasing financial penalties and extending jail terms to up to 25 years for terrorism related activity, WAM...

A mother and her four-year-old daughter were detained for three days in Dubai for drinking a glass of wine on a flight from London, according to rights group Detained...

The United Arab Emirates plans to build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea and Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said. The pipeline will run from Eritrea’s port city of Assab to...

Israeli journalist Edy Cohen has claimed that an Emirati pilot participated in the bombing of Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago during his training on Israeli...

Saudi-led coalition air strikes today killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus, in Yemen’s Saada province, Yemeni medical sources and the International Committee of the Red...

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said his country wants to restore relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, calling for dialogue to confront “extremism” in the...

The shift in oil market power away from OPEC towards a bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and Russia is the culmination of structural changes in oil production over the...

Canada plans to seek help from the United Arab Emirates and Britain to defuse an escalating dispute with Saudi Arabia, sources said on Tuesday, but close ally the United...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) owned port company DP World is looking at its “options” following a legal ruling that sided in its favour over a row with Djibouti...

Some 1,100 Pakistani expats in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have taken advantage of an amnesty visa scheme launched earlier this month, Khaleej Times reported yesterday. Pakistani expats who...

Canada on Monday refused to back down in its defence of human rights after Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment and expelled the Canadian ambassador in retaliation for...

The International Campaign to Boycott the UAE (ICBU) said on Sunday that the UAE’s attempts to appear as if it were fighting and combating human trafficking crimes through holding...

The number of foreigners visiting Dubai, the Gulf’s tourism hub, grew by 0.5 per cent in the first half of 2018, a substantially slower rate than the 10.6 per...

Hundreds of pregnant women in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah risk dying as the escalating conflict puts medical care out of reach in a country with one of the world’s...

An American delegation, including representatives of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and nine candidates for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS), arrived in Moscow on...

The Saudi-led coalition denied any responsibility behind the air strikes on a fishing port and fish market that Yemeni medical sources said it killed 26 people in Hudaydah on...

Former US secretary of State prevented a major military attack against Qatar in June last year, in an act that may have played a primary factor in his dismissal....

Since the American president was elected, his many dreams were revealed. I say “dreams” because most of them are not based on a realistic vision of international politics. They...

A leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebel group on Tuesday unveiled an initiative aimed at halting all military activity in the war-weary country. In a Tuesday tweet, Mohamed Ali al-Houthi,...

The impact of the anti-Qatar embargo continues to have strange consequences beyond the Gulf. Somalia is increasingly compromised by its schizophrenic approach to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE...

The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, was put in an uncomfortable situation by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali when he asked him to support the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is ready to deploy more troops across the Middle East as it cannot rely on Western allies, including the United Kingdom and United States,...

A report published by French newspaper Le Monde this week revealed that the Mossad’s operatives based in Paris planned the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh. The French capital...

Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi movement said today it had attacked Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a drone. There was no immediate comment from UAE authorities...

Qatar is running a major expansion programme at its Al-Udeid military airbase, according to the Qatar News Agency (QNA). The expansion project “intends to underscore Qatar’s ongoing commitment to...

For such a small country, the Gulf emirate of Qatar has had a large influence over Arabic media. Beginning back in 1996, the renowned 24/7 satellite TV channel Al...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today issued a provisional ruling for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately reunite Qatari families and end its racial discrimination against them....

South Africa has rejected Saudi and UAE pressure to severe relations with Qatar, Al-Khaleej Online reported Pretoria’s envoy to Doha saying. During a celebration to remember South African freedom...