The Latest Breaking News from Gulf

Exclusive: Qatari minister expected to take presidency of ILO event despite bribery investigation

The move is in response to ‘Iranian threats, armed seizures and attacks’ on shipping vessels, US official says.

The U.S. military will work to bolster the defensive posture in the Gulf region following Iran's seizure and harassment of commercial shipping vessels in recent months, U.S. officials said on Friday.

Leaders in one of the country's most disadvantaged communities fear their towns will die if bridges are not raised before the next wet season.

Tunisia and Egypt are edging closer to major debt crises that could suck in a volatile North Africa region and pose tough choices to wealthy Gulf Arab neighbours, investors and analysts warn. 

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz invited Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to attend an Arab League summit in the Gulf country's city of Jeddah, the Syrian state media reported on Wednesday.

The drug, often smuggled to Gulf states, has been a key topic in discussions over Syria’s re-entry to the Arab League.

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Saudi Arabia's crown prince is mending fences with Syria and Iran, soothing rivalries with Gulf rivals and now welcoming the Biden administration's point man on security to Jeddah. Ten months after that frosty fist bump with the US president, Mohammed bin Salman is talking peace-brokering in Sudan and a winding…

In what is being billed as another important “Quad” in West Asia, Saudi Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad Bin Salman (MbS) hosted a special meeting of the National Security Advisers (NSAs) of India, the U.S. and the UAE, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Fishers say they are catching buckets of giant freshwater prawns with their bare hands in the Gulf's best fishing season in decades.