World / Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The United Arab Emirates banned a popular Mideast website and magazine on Wednesday for publishing what the authorities alleged...

Muscat:  The Sultanate of Oman will celebrate today, the 47th anniversary of the Blessed Renaissance Day. On this day, the courageous Omani people...

Dubai:  Bahrain has slapped terrorism charges on an activist who tweeted criticism of the government's treatment of women, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Ebtisam...

Dubai:  Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Bahraini authorities to release a detained human rights activist it said was at "high risk of torture"....

Brussels: A Belgian court convicted eight Emirati royals on Friday of human trafficking and degrading treatment of their servants at a Brussels hotel,...

Muscat:  The Sultanate of Oman this week unveiled the world’s first interactive calligraphic electronic Quran. The Electronic Mushaf Muscat Calligraphy Project was developed...

Dubai: Kuwait has picked accounting firm EY to do a valuation of its stock exchange, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters yesterday....

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates on Sunday warned its citizens against travelling to Britain after the London Bridge attack, the third in the...

JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma has denied owning a “palace” in the United Arab Emirates, his office said on Sunday, after local...

DUBAI: Assailants have hacked the Twitter account of Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa and posted hostile and insulting videos, the...

New York: The State of Kuwait was elected Friday a non-permanent member for the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term starting...

Geneva:  Donald Trump may be lighting up Twitter with strange new words and attacks on allies but in the battle for most attention...

DUBAI: A Saudi-owned television channel has launched a drama series portraying the brutality of life under the Islamic State to counter sleek propaganda...

DUBAI: A car bomb exploded in Qatif city in eastern Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported, without giving any details on...

RIYADH: Two people were killed and another injured when a man opened fire inside a private school’s administration building in Saudi Arabia’s capital,...

Kuwait City: A Kuwaiti appeals court on Wednesday sentenced seven young men to death for the abduction and rape of a disabled 13-year-old...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will impose a special tax on tobacco and sugary drinks on June 10, as part of a series of steps...

Dubai: They are mothers, daughters, wives -- and suicide bombers: an Arab television drama timed for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan tells...