Virus outbreak in Iran sickens hundreds, including leaders
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After facing sanctions and the risk of war amid tensions with the United States, Iran...
Amid virus, Saudis close Islam’s holiest sites to foreigners
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Thursday closed off the holiest sites in Islam to foreign pilgrims ov...
An increasingly isolated Iran tries to control virus crisis
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran girded Wednesday for a long battle against the coronavirus that is spreading rap...
Iran says official who played down virus fears is infected
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus who had urged the pub...
Iranian clerics keep shrines open, even as virus spreads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Shiite shrines that attract tens of millions of visitors annually have come under foc...
Devices found in missiles, Yemen drones link Iran to attacks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A small instrument inside the drones that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil in...
Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peace...
Dubai airport remains world’s No. 1 for international travel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai International Airport said on Wednesday that it maintained its title as the world's busiest for international trav...
Abu Dhabi’s long-troubled Etihad sells 38 planes for $1B
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi's long-troubled Etihad Airways said Tuesday it would sell 38 aircraft to an investment firm and a leasing comp...
Muslim nations reject Trump’s Mideast plan in Saudi meeting
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Days after Gulf Arab states expressed their support for President Donald Trump's efforts at resolving the Israeli-Palest...
Gulf Arabs back Trump’s Mideast efforts, but not peace plan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A tectonic shift in relations quietly underway for years now was on full display as representatives of Gulf Arab states ...
UAE confirms 4 Chinese tourists have virus, first in Mideast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A family of four Chinese tourists in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday became the first cases in the Mideast of a ne...
World airports taking precautions after China virus ourbreak
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Airports around the world have begun taking precautions to deal with an anticipated influx of Chinese tourists taking Lu...
Saudi crown prince’s WhatsApp linked to Bezos phone hack
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The cellphone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked in what appeared to be an attempt by Sau...
‘Days of God’: A look at Iran’s mounting crises
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's supreme leader says his nation is living through “days of God.”
Video: 20 seconds of terror between missiles in Iran crash
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to" for days after the Islamic Republic accidentally...
Iran warning puts thousands of European troops in spotlight
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A warning by Iran's president that European forces in the Middle East could be at risk if their nations join the U.S. pr...
For decades Iranians have risen up, only to be put down
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The demonstrations that erupted after Iran admitted to accidentally shooting down a passenger plane during a tense stand...
Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence Sunday night to protest their country's days of denials that it sho...
New Oman ruler vows to uphold late sultan’s peaceful policy
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman's new ruler, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, vowed Saturday to uphold his predecessor Sultan Qaboos bin Said's fo...
Oman state TV says Haitham bin Tariq Al Said is Oman’s new sultan after the death of longtime ruler Qaboos bin Said
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman state TV says Haitham bin Tariq Al Said is Oman's new sultan after the death of longtime ruler Qaboos bin Said.
Oman state TV says authorities open letter by deceased Sultan Qaboos bin Said naming his successor, without elaborating
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman state TV says authorities open letter by deceased Sultan Qaboos bin Said naming his successor, without elaborating.
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who modernized Oman, dies at 79
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled hi...
Crash may be grim echo of US downing of Iran flight in 1988
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Western allegation that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner and killed 176 people offers a grim echo for the Islamic...
Risky Gulf Arab strategy tested by killing of Iran general
DUBAI, United Arab Emirate — U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf have loudly pushed for hawkish policies by Washington to pressure, isolate and cripple Ir...
Commercial airlines reroute flights amid US-Iran tensions
NEW DELHI — Commercial airlines on Wednesday rerouted flights crossing the Middle East to avoid possible danger amid escalating tensions between the U...
Iranian leader’s tears a sign of respect for slain general
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In a rare display of emotion from the typically reserved and measured supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cri...
Trump’s threats draw Iran’s cultural sites into tensions
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's ancient and rich cultural landscape has become a potential U.S. military target as Washington and Tehran lob thre...
Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the...
Saudi Aramco plans $25.6B share sale in biggest ever IPO
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday set a share price for its IPO — expected to be the biggest eve...