Kuwait MPs demand 24 officials prosecuted over Dow deal
Kuwaiti MPs called on the government Wednesday to refer 24 ex-oil officials to the public prosecutor over a scrapped deal with US firm Dow...
Major fighting in Yemen coming to an end, says Saudi General al-Asseri
The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition battling the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen has been quoted as saying major fighting in the country is drawing...
Chinese site got hit in Baghdad
Iraqi officials announced Saturday that two rockets struck near a Chinese oil facility south of Baghdad without causing any casualties, the second such attack...
Philippines’ Duterte orders lifting of labour deployment ban to Kuwait
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered on Wednesday the "total" lifting of a ban on Filipinos working in Kuwait after the two countries agreed on...
Security services stopped a bank robbery attempt in Jazan
Two people were killed and two others injured when a gunman fired at them during a failed attempt to rob a local bank in...
Israel drone strike kills civilian near Golan Heights in Syria
Syrian state TV reported on Thursday, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in southern Syria, killing one person.
The state-run media outlet...
U.S. weighs special forces in Syria, helicopters in Iraq
The United States is considering sending a small number of special operations forces to Syria and attack helicopters to Iraq as it weighs options...
Gulf banks under pressure from low oil prices
Banks in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are being increasingly challenged by a liquidity squeeze resulting from low oil prices, Moody's Investor Services...
Suicide bombings in and around Iraqi capital kill 27 people
Two suicide attacks in and around the Iraqi capital on Thursday killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens, officials said.
The deadliest attack took...
Saudi Prince Mohammed says war unlikely with Iran
Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, widely thought to wield considerable power in the monarchy, has given an interview to a magazine in which he...
