Train for pilgrims’ Makkah–Madinah travel by end of 2016
Buses will no longer be used for transporting pilgrims to and fro Makkah and Madinah when the Haramain Highspeed Railway commences operation by December...
Price hikes in Egypt bite hard during holy month of Ramadan
Shop owner Hassan Mahmoud laid out his heaps of dried fruits and nuts at a multicolored Ramadan tent in the Egyptian capital to catch...
Truck bomb blast kills dozens in northeast Syria city
A large truck bomb blast claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) killed nearly 50 people and wounded scores more in the northeastern Syrian city of...
Turkey seeks to identify child suicide bomber
Turkish authorities were on Monday scrambling to identify a child suicide bomber acting on the orders of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists who killed 54...
Lockheed Martin awarded $263M for Saudi F-15's
Lockheed Martin says it has been awarded a $262.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to service Saudi Arabia's F-15 sniper targeting system...
Bahrain deports several Lebanese over Hezbollah links
Bahrain has deported several Lebanese residents who it believes had links to or supported the Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah, which Gulf Arab states have...
Egypt arrests Facebook page administrators, allegedly Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian security forces have arrested the administrators of 47 Facebook pages that the interior ministry says are run by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, intensifying...
Germany says Syria ceasefire talks to take place this afternoon
A task force set up to discuss a planned cessation of hostilities in Syria will meet for the first time in Geneva on Friday...
U. A. E lays out new migrant labor reforms
The United Arab Emirates is introducing labor reforms that aim to tighten oversight of employment agreements for the millions of temporary migrant workers that...
Lebanon PM in Saudi for first visit since diplomatic crisis
Lebanon's prime minister on Wednesday made his first trip to Saudi Arabia since he briefly resigned from office during a visit to Riyadh late...
