A British newspaper editor in Dubai was found guilty Sunday of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Francis Matthew, the former editor of the English-language Gulf News, had faced the possibility of the death penalty in the July 2017...

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail. AlWadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for...

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of TOW 2B anti-tank missiles worth an estimated $670 million. The department said it had notified the U.S. Congress on Thursday of the possible sale. "This proposed sale will support...

An air strike by the Arab-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed ten civilians, including women and children, in the northern province of Saada Thursday, residents and medics said. Saudi Arabia's military alliance intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 against Iran-aligned Houthis who had...