DUBAI/SANAA: Both brothers who carried out the attack against satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo travelled to Yemen via Oman in 2011 and had weapons training in...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said on Tuesday the world's top oil exporter would deal "with a firm will" with the challenge posed by...
SANAA: When Yemeni Arwa Othman took a dance at the headquarters of a political party in Sanaa, she exposed the kind of deep hostility that is worrying women’s...
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: As U.S. fighter jets pound ISIS targets in Syria, America’s coalition allies appear increasingly absent from the air war.Although President...
SANAA: It was Waddah al-Hitari’s beard that killed him. Militiamen on the streets of Yemen’s capital shot him dead one Friday because he looked like a...
SANAA: Saudi Arabia has suspended most of its financial aid to Yemen, Yemeni and Western sources said, in a clear indication of its dissatisfaction with the...
SANAA: A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador's residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa Wednesday, security...
KARBALA, Iraq: As an undertaker in Iraq’s Shiite holy city of Karbala, Faris al-Kaabi has had an unusually busy summer.His niche is burying the bodies of the...
BAGHDAD: When ISIS fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni...
BAGHDAD: ISIS militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and...
BAGHDAD: Around 200 Iraqi soldiers were trapped in an army camp in western Iraq Wednesday, besieged by ISIS militants who routed hapless army forces in a raid...
BAGHDAD: ISIS urged its followers on Monday to attack citizens of the United States, France and other countries which have joined a coalition to destroy the...
BAGHDAD/DUBAI: Sometimes they came pretending to buy things. Sometimes they texted, sometimes they called, but the message was always the same: “Give us...
DUBAI: The Mosul Dam was always meant to be a symbol of Iraq’s grandiose ambition to escape poverty and underdevelopment. But from the start, the $1.5...
SANAA/Dubai: A clampdown on state spending was an effort by Yemen’s government this month to win public support before its biggest economic reform in years:...
DUBAI: Bahrain interrogated its top opposition leader on Wednesday after expelling a senior U.S. diplomat for meeting him, a remarkable slap at Washington...
MAHFAD, Yemen: At first glance, the neat handwriting in blue ink could be from a school notebook. Prize apart the pages – stuck together by sand and water –...
DUBAI: As new Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi prepares for his inauguration Sunday, his most powerful Arab ally is deploying both threats and promises...
DUBAI/RIYADH: Differences between the United States and Saudi Arabia over Middle East policy persist, despite attempts to shore up their old alliance, and may...
DUBAI: The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Yemen has vowed to attack the United States, in a video apparently showing a gathering of the group celebrating a mass...
DUBAI: The ink was barely dry on President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi’s plan to stabilize chaotic Yemen before the objections started pouring in. Leader...
BAGHDAD/DUBAI: Nouri al-Maliki’s political skills have kept him at the pinnacle of power in Iraq since 2006, but the Shiite leader has yet to heal the wounds...
MANAMA: Brazen Al-Qaeda attacks on top government targets in Yemen are unlikely to abate while security services remain divided, ill-equipped and infiltrated...
DUBAI: Egypt's interim head of state Adly Mansour will not run for president in elections slated for next year, a Kuwaiti newspaper on Tuesday quoted him as...