Rebel shelling of a residential neighborhood of Yemen's third-largest city Taez killed four boys aged between seven and 15, a local official said on Tuesday. The city is largely in the hands of the Saudi-backed government but has been a key battlefield in the conflict that has gripped...

Qatar signed an agreement Sunday to buy 24 Typhoon fighter jets from Britain, a second major defense deal signed by Doha during its lengthening diplomatic dispute with its neighbors. Qatari defense secretary Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah and his British counterpart Michael Fallon...

Qatar is ready to sit at the negotiating table to try to end a dispute with its Gulf Arab neighbors, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said on Friday in Berlin. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5, accusing the...

A prominent Saudi religious leader has been arrested, according to social media postings on Sunday, in what appears to be a crackdown on Islamists seen as critics of the conservative kingdom’s absolute rulers. Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, an influential cleric who was imprisoned from...