UAE’s Landmark Group halts sale of Trump products after 'Muslim ban' remarks
Dubai-based retailer Landmark Group has suspended the sale of Trump-branded home decor products in its Lifestyle stores after the recent statements made by US...
Cigarettes off Saudi shelves amid price rise speculation
Cigarettes had disappeared from the shelves in some Saudi cities on Sunday amid speculation on social media that the government was about to raise...
Al Qaeda militants begin to leave two Yemeni towns
Al Qaeda militants began to pull out of two southern Yemeni town on Thursday, residents said, following weeks of mediation by tribesmen for them...
Libya rivals declare unity Cabinet under UN plan
Representatives of Libya's rival factions who are sitting in Tunis and negotiating through a U.N.-brokered process announced on Tuesday that they have formed a...
FIFA confirms final five for presidential vote
FIFA on Tuesday confirmed the final five candidates to take over from the banned Sepp Blatter as head of the world body one month...
Palestinian forum convened after 22 years, beset by boycotts and divisions
A powerful but rarely convened assembly that calls itself the Palestinian "supreme authority" meets for the first time in 22 years on Monday, but...
Assad says civil war has cost Syria $200 billion
The brutal five-year conflict in Syria has cost the country over $200 billion (176 billion euros), President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview released...
Nearly 450 killed in Russian strikes on Syria
Russian air strikes in Syria have killed at least 446 people, more than a third of them civilians, since they began end-September, the Syrian...
Egypt court sentences 7 to death over cadet bombing
An Egyptian military court has handed down seven death sentences for an April 2015 bombing that killed two army cadets as they waited to...
Saudi Arabia slams Israeli fire in Gaza, silent on Jerusalem
Saudi Arabia condemned Israeli gunfire on Monday that killed at least 52 Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others, without mentioning the inauguration of the...
