World / Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: A fire has broken out at a high-rise building in Dubai. An Associated Press journalist saw smoke rising on...

Heavy gunfire has been heard near the royal palace in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. The official spokesman of district police in Riyadh said...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is to hold a private screening on Wednesday of the Hollywood blockbuster "Black Panther" to herald the launch...

Manila, Philippines: A Philippine domestic worker has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach, Manila's...

RIYADH: Yemen's Houthis targeted Saudi Arabia's defence ministry in Riyadh with ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the armed group's Al Masirah TV said on...

PARIS, A rights group filed a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit to France on Tuesday, accusing him...

Indian migrants have been advised not to take up fishing jobs on trawlers or vessels that may move towards Iran from  Saudi Arabia,...

Doha: "This is from God, not from them," says a Jordanian pilgrim, who was filming his compatriots emptying several cans of Zamzam water...

Washington: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday countries that want the US to remain in Syria may have to pay for the continued military...

Kuwait City: Kuwait will recruit Ethiopian nationals to make up for a "deficit" in domestic workers, authorities said Tuesday, following the grisly murder...

The parliamentary financial and economic affairs committee on Sunday approved bills imposing fees on expatriates' remittances, Kuwait News Agency reported. In a statement,...

Doha: A senior Dubai police official has launched a vitriolic attack on Pakistani citizens through his official Twitter handle.  Head of General Security...

Kuwait City: Fifteen workers with an oil drilling company were killed in a head-on collision between two buses in southern Kuwait on Sunday,...

American pop legend Cher has tweeted her support for a jailed Saudi Arabian royal, appealing to powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to...

DUBAI: A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his wife to death after they were convicted in absentia of killing a...

RIYADH: Saudi air defence forces intercepted a missile fired by Houthi fighters in neighbouring Yemen at the southern city of Najran on Saturday,...

London: Saudi Arabia's widely-lauded reforms are no more than a public relations blitz aimed at masking Riyadh's rights record and are "fooling nobody",...

CAIRO: At a crowded crossroads on the edge of a poor Cairo district, blaring music and a news ticker on a giant screen...