The United States and Gulf Arab countries will sign an agreement on Sunday to coordinate their efforts against the financing of terrorist groups, a senior White House official said, as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the region. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and U.S. Secretary of...

North Korea on Sunday fired a ballistic missile from an area near its capital, Pyongyang, South Korea's military said, in the latest weapons test for a country speeding up its development of nuclear weapons and missiles. The missile was fired from an area near Pukchang, in South Phyongan...

A court in the Gaza Strip on Sunday sentenced three men to death over the assassination of a Hamas military commander that the Islamist movement accused Israel of masterminding. After a trial that lasted four days, two of the accused were sentenced to be hanged and one to be shot, the...

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party has kicked off a congress to re-elect President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its chairman after last month's referendum. Erdogan will return to lead the party he co-founded after Sunday's extraordinary congress in Ankara. Last month's referendum on...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he hoped to visit Egypt, after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during a trip to the Saudi capital Riyadh. "I will get to Egypt. We will be putting that on the schedule soon," he said. He said Sisi had "done a tremendous job...

Dogged by controversy at home, Donald Trump won a warm reception in Saudi Arabia on Saturday but struggled to shift attention from the political firestorm over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey. A $110 billion deal in which Saudi Arabia will buy U.S. arms to help it counter Iran,...

By Ahmed Khalil (Eqtsad)- The cost of living has significantly increased in Syria reaching levels exceeded the ability of current salaries and income to cover. Salaries of employees in Syria range between SP25,000 and SP42,000 according to the grade (from grade 5 to grade 1 respectively) and...

A suicide bombing near the oil-rich city of Basra killed at least eight people as ISIS took the fight against Iraqi forces deep into the country's south, a military commander said Saturday. Five civilians and three troops were killed when the bomber blew up his explosives-laden car Friday at...

US President Donald Trump will seek to rebuild relations with the Muslim world on his first foreign trip starting Saturday in Saudi Arabia as political scandals mount at home. Trump can expect a warm reception when he arrives in the oil-rich kingdom for talks with King Salman, but the...

President Hassan Rouhani has an unbeatable lead in Iran's presidential election, an Iranian official source told Reuters on Saturday, citing an early unofficial tally, and is set to defeat his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi and win a second term. In a briefing for reporters, interior ministry...

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia Saturday on his first foreign trip that will be closely watched in capitals the world over. From Riyadh to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Rome, Brussels and Sicily, Donald Trump left a swirl of domestic woes behind. Trump’s extraordinarily dense...

Yemen's armed Houthi movement said on Friday it had fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi capital Riyadh, just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, but the claim could not immediately be confirmed. The Iran-allied Houthis launched a Burkan-1 missile, a...

U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura ended four days of Syria talks on Friday, saying there had been "incremental progress" and he planned to reconvene negotiations in June. But the warring sides still showed no sign of wanting to be in the same room, let alone on the same page in terms of...

Iraq's president said the scale of destruction in Mosul is "horrendous" and that his country will need help from investors and international donors to rebuild its second-largest city. Iraqi troops backed by a U.S.-led coalition have been advancing in Mosul since the fall, pushing back ISIS...

The Trump administration plans to announce $110 billion in advanced military equipment sales and training to Saudi Arabia this weekend as President Donald Trump visits the country, officials said Friday. U.S. officials familiar with the package said it would include Abrams tanks, combat...

A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint on a highway near oilfields in Iraq's southern province of Basra on Friday, police sources said. Several people were killed in the blast at the Rumeila checkpoint, including two soldiers and a number of civilians in a bus, the sources...

Before voting had even concluded in Iran's presidential election on Friday, the head of the opposition campaign complained of multiple "infractions" and called for an intervention by authorities. The campaign chief for hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi said there had been "propaganda actions by...

Cholera has killed two people in the Kenyan capital this week and another five are receiving treatment in hospital, a Nairobi county public health official said on Friday. The diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces can kill within hours unless treated...

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 242 people, and left nearly 23,500 others sick in the past three weeks alone, the World Health Organization said Friday. The U.N. health agency said that in the past day alone, 20 cholera deaths and 3,460 suspected cases had been registered...

Turkish authorities issued arrest warrants Friday for the owner and three employees of opposition daily Sozcu, state media reported, as the crackdown on opposition media widened. The owner, Burak Akbay, and the three others, including the executive in charge of the website, Mediha Olgun, are...