The United Nations Friday welcomed a decision by Yemen's government to pay the salaries of civil servants in the rebel-held city of Hodeida starting this month. For more than two years, the government has been unable to pay salaries and the riyal dropped sharply against the dollar,...

Saudi King Salman has appointed former finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf as foreign minister in a major cabinet reshuffle that included changes to key national security posts, state media reported Thursday. The reshuffle came with the Saudi government trying to deal with intense...

A princess who tried to flee the United Arab Emirates months ago is "a troubled young woman," a former U.N. human rights chief said Thursday after meeting her this month. Mary Robinson told BBC radio 4's Today program that she had been invited by Princess Haya, the wife of Dubai ruler...

A U.N.-led team tasked with monitoring a ceasefire in Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida was set to meet Wednesday, as sporadic clashes underscored the fragility of the truce which began last week. The ceasefire in the rebel-held city, whose Red Sea port is vital for millions at risk of...

Kuwait has appointed four new ministers including Khaled al-Fadhel as the country's oil minister, the state news agency Kuna reported on Monday. Fadhel previously held the title of undersecretary at the ministry of commerce, and was a professor at Kuwait University's Faculty of...

The United Arab Emirates said on Monday Princess Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum, daughter of Dubai’s ruler, was at home and living with her family. Rights groups had called on the UAE to disclose the whereabouts and condition of Sheikha Latifa, following reports in the...

They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch. Land mines scattered by Yemen's Houthi rebels are largely unmapped and will remain a threat even if the latest push for peace succeeds in...

Executions in Saudi Arabia rose significantly in the first eight months after Mohammed bin Salman became deputy crown prince, a London-based human rights organization said. According to Reprieve, 133 people were executed between June 2017 and March 2018, nearly twice as many as the 67...

Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a member of the Saudi royal family, died on Saturday at the age of 88, according to Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya. His death was confirmed by his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal on Twitter adding that condolences will be received for three days starting Sunday....

The head of a UN mission tasked with monitoring Yemen’s ceasefire in the port city of Al-Hudaydah arrived in Aden on Saturday, according to a local source. Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general, arrived aboard UN plane from the Jordanian capital Amman, a source at the Aden airport...

An uneasy calm returned to the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeida on Thursday after further overnight skirmishes, as the warring parties await the promised deployment of UN staff to oversee a hard-won but fragile truce. The ceasefire in the Red Sea port city, which is a vital aid...

Saudi Arabia announced Thursday the creation of three new government bodies aimed at improving the country’s intelligence operations in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has sparked international outrage. King Salman ordered a restructuring of the intelligence...

Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Wednesday announced that talks between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to find a solution to the Gulf crisis are ongoing. During a news conference he held with his Dutch counterpart Steve Block in...

The Arab coalition fighting on the side of Yemen's government said it launched an airstrike Wednesday at the airport in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, destroying a drone. It is the first airstrike that the alliance has confirmed carrying out since a ceasefire was agreed at peace talks in...

The Saudi government has allocated 17.3 percent of its 2019 budget for military spending, according to figures released Wednesday. Released by the Saudi Finance Ministry on Tuesday, the budget calls for $51 billion -- 17.3 percent of the total -- to be allocated for military spending,...

Yemen's warring parties have exchanged lists with a total of 16,000 names of people believed to be detained as part of a prisoner swap deal signed last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. Forty days after the Dec. 11 signing, the ICRC will have 10 days to...

Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday its 2019 budget projecting a $35 billion shortfall, amounting to a deficit for the sixth year in a row due to low oil prices. The budget foresees spending at $295 billion, the largest in the oil-rich kingdom's history, while revenues, mostly from oil, are...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday said he had no plans to withdraw his country’s forces from war-torn Yemen. Al-Bashir made the assertion two days after visiting Damascus and meeting with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad -- becoming the first Arab head of state to do so...

A team including members of Yemen's warring sides will be dispatched within a day to monitor a truce deal in Hodeida city, a United Nations official said Tuesday. "The Redeployment Coordination Committee [RCC] is expected to start its work within the next 24 hours," the official, who...

A senior military commander was killed in a mortar attack by Houthi rebels east of Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to a military spokesman on Monday.  Brigadier-General Taher Hamid al-Sharabi was killed when a shell struck Nahm district, east of Sanaa, Colonel Abdul Basset al-Bahar...