Middle East
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 ...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 ...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, ...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, ...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 ...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, ...Israel and Morocco agree to normalise relations in latest Trump-brokered deal
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Morocco is now the fourth Arab state this year to recognize Israel in ...Kuwait election sees two-thirds of parliament lose seats
Kuwaitis elected a new parliament in an election that saw two-thirds of lawmakers and the country’s only female legislator lose ...Bahrain becomes 2nd country to authorize Pfizer’s COVID vaccine
Bahrain said on Friday it has granted emergency use authorisation for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the second country after ...Saudi Arabia and Qatar near deal to help end Gulf crisis
Rivals Qatar and Saudi Arabia, along with neutral Oman and Kuwait, said Friday progress had been made towards resolving the ...