Saudi vote campaign for women enters final day
Saudi Arabia's first election campaign open to women ends on Thursday but voters see little chance of a breakthrough for female candidates.
More than 900...
Iraqi Kurd leader: 'Time has come' for statehood referendum
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, a move...
Egypt’s president: More funds needed to overhaul railway
Egypt's president says his cash-strapped government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian pounds, or $14.1 billion, to overhaul the country's run-down railway system.
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's remarks...
Egyptian military court sentences journalist to 10 years
An Egyptian military court has sentenced a freelance journalist who reported on the Sinai insurgency to 10 years in prison on terror-related charges.
The Cairo...
Saudi government website shows 9 US nationals arrested
Nine Americans are currently imprisoned in Saudi jails, with eight detained in the past three months, according to a website belonging to Saudi Arabia's...
Egypt court orders suspension of Uber, Careem licences
An Egyptian court ordered on Tuesday the suspension of licences for ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem after taxi drivers filed a lawsuit seeking to...
U.N. officials slam hatred against Muslims
Two senior U.N. officials said Monday they are "sickened by blatant manifestations of hatred and intolerance" by public figures and others, particularly against Muslims,...
Solar plane's arrival highlights UAE's clean-energy push
The United Arab Emirates might not seem like an obvious spot to begin and end a globe-spanning flight promoting renewable energy.
It is OPEC's fourth...
General Qassem Soleimani: Iran’s regional pointman
By some counts the most popular figure in Iran, Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani is also one of the most powerful in the region...
Putin: Russia will not deploy troops in Syria
Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting air strikes against what it says are ISIS targets, President Vladimir...
