Kuwait has ordered an investigation into a $1.1 billion deal to buy 30 military helicopters from France, a minister said Wednesday, after reports of alleged kickbacks. The oil-rich emirate agreed to buy the Airbus Caracal helicopters for one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in August 2016...

Qatar's emir was to tour six West African nations starting Wednesday in search of new markets, six months after Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries cut ties with the wealthy emirate. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Lulwa al-Khater told a press conference that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...

The Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh Tuesday, while the rebels said they targeted the royal palace in the kingdom's capital. It was the second time in as many months that a rebel projectile had reached...