Saudi public schools will begin offering physical education for girls in the coming academic year, the education ministry announced on Tuesday, in another step forward for women and girls in the Kingdom.
Aramco has positioned itself to be accepted by investors as a major international oil company (IOC) and as a globally diversified energy enterprise with integrated...
The creation of "industrial cities" - huge projects in which state institutions play key roles in planning and raising finance, but which seek to attract...
Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they shared, Saudi authorities said....
Foreign Policy
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Colum Lynch, Robbie Gramer, Dan de Luce and Paul McLeary |
7.12.2017
A confidential U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement for southwestern Syria that went into effect Sunday calls for barring Iranian-backed foreign fighters from a strategic stretch of Syrian...
The cholera outbreak in Yemen marked a grim milestone Monday, as the International Committee of the Red Cross announced there are now more than 300,000...
Politico
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Andrew Restuccia and Michael Grunwald |
7.12.2017
The Trump administration is rethinking a pair of international aviation agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar amid allegations that the Persian Gulf nations...
Ships carrying Chinese military personnel for Beijing’s first overseas military base, in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, have left China to begin setting up...
The UAE’s three main cities – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah – have developed distinct yet complementary art ecosystems defined by the leadership and character...
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the decline of United States leadership in the world economy are greatly exaggerated. The Hamburg G-20 summit actually underscored...
On Friday, Suez Canal chairman Mohab Mamish announced that Qatari vessels would be banned from the canal area's ports and its special economic zone. Qatari...
Reuters
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Matt Spetalnick and Julia Harte |
7.12.2017
Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of instigating last year's failed coup, says he has no plans to flee the United States...
