Gulf neighbours the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced a joint committee to confront "regional challenges", in a statement published on official Emirati news agency WAM. The move came as Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met UAE Crown Prince...

Tartus has itself largely escaped the conflict in Syria, but posters of its sons killed fighting for the regime elsewhere in the country line the western city's main road. A wall in the central bus station is a tapestry of pictures of the dead, most of them young, posing in...

Reporting by Ahmad Primo; Translation by Yusra Ahmed     (Zaman Alwasl-Special)- Journalist Rowaida Kana’an was detained in Syrian regime’s prisons for more than 10 months, before she with other 135 female detainees were assigned for...

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah will travel to Iran on May 31 amid a recent thaw in Tehran's relations with Gulf states, the Iranian foreign ministry said Tuesday. Relations between Iran and the Gulf states have been frosty for years, with disagreements over the...