Middle East
Yemen’s rebels defiant as aid agencies fear US terror label
Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels on Monday dismissed the U.S. move to designate them a terrorist organization in the final days of the Trump ...Saudi Arabia to lift Qatar embargo, open airspace and border
Kuwait’s foreign ministry announced Monday that Saudi Arabia will open its air and land borders with Qatar in the first steps toward ...Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan resume talks over disputed dam
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, officials said. ...Iran plans 20% uranium enrichment ‘as soon as possible’
Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing ...World ushers in New Year in shadow of pandemic
Confetti fluttered on to frontline workers scattered across Times Square after fireworks burst above eerily quiet landmarks from Sydney Harbour Bridge to ...Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives
At least 26 people were killed Wednesday as explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in ...Saudi court jails women’s rights activist for more than five years
A Saudi court on Monday sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, her family ...From hope to agony, what’s left of the Arab Spring?
Ten years ago a wildfire of revolts in the Arab world touched off an unlikely series of events that swelled, then dashed ...Explosion rocks Singapore-flagged tanker off Saudi port
An explosion rocked a Singapore-flagged oil tanker off the Saudi port city of Jeddah Monday, the vessel’s owner said, in the latest ...Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during the 2017 anti-government protests, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state ...














