More bombs hit Syria’s Ghouta, death toll highest since 2013
Pro-government forces pounded the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, in a surge of violence that a war...
Oil prices dip as Saudi Arabia rules out intervention
Oil retreated after Saudi Arabia's influential oil minister said Tuesday it was up to the market to determine prices, effectively ruling out an intervention...
Attack on mosque kills 2 people in Al-Ahsa, Saudi
A bomb and gun attack on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province killed two people and wounded at least 10 on Friday,...
Saudi diplomat accused of rape withdrawn from India
Saudi Arabia has withdrawn the diplomat accused of repeatedly raping and torturing two Nepali maids working at his home near New Delhi, ending an...
Iraq's Abadi plants flag in Ramadi to mark Isis defeat
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi planted the national flag in Ramadi on Tuesday after the army retook the city center from Islamic State a...
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ex-president, dead at 91
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, died Tuesday at...
Gunmen shut Yemen university faculties for mixing of sexes
Radical Islamist gunmen shut down three faculties at Yemen's University of Aden on Tuesday in an attempt to force students to observe segregation of...
Prince Alwaleed and French PM discuss economic ties
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), received at his office in Riyadh French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
He was accompanied by...
Saudi prince says Turkey part of “triangle of evil”
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has described Turkey as part of a "triangle of evil" along with Iran and hardline Islamist...
On Saudi-Iran rift, Gulf Arab states tread with caution
Gulf Arab states rallied dutifully behind Saudi Arabia when it cut relations with Iran last week, recalling their ambassadors and cancelling flights to Tehran...
