Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens to leave Lebanon due to the risk of political violence in the country, where twin suicide bombings near Iran's embassy in Beirut killed 25 people this week. Riyadh has issued several similar calls in the past two years as the...

Syria’s rebels blew up a vehicle transporting a number of Jordanian intellectuals, writers and journalists in Daraa countryside Thursday who were on a visit to Syria, wounding five,’’ State-run news agency SANA reported. Rebels have remotely detonated an explosive device...

Six mortar shells landed near a remote Saudi border post close to neighbouring fellow oil producers Iraq and Kuwait on Wednesday, but caused no damage, the kingdom said on Thursday. The shells hit desert on the far northwestern fringes of the kingdom’s oil producing...