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Business
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Energy
8/17/2023 12:30:23 PM
After riding the fossil fuel boom for decades, Gulf Arab states are eyeing "green" hydrogen as they try to transition their economies and ease the climate crisis at a stroke.
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World
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Region
7/21/2023 7:02:00 PM
Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage Friday at the desecration of a copy of the Koran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations following midday prayers to show their anger.
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World
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Region
7/12/2023 10:09:12 PM
The finance minister of Kuwait, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has resigned only three months after his appointment by the prime minister, state media said on Wednesday.
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World
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Region
6/22/2023 2:28:20 PM
Iran's foreign minister on Thursday concluded a three-day tour of Gulf Arab neighbors with a visit to the United Arab Emirates where he held talks with the country's president.
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 10:17:48 AM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began a visit to China on Tuesday that comes as Beijing is seeking a larger role in Middle East politics.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 12:07:13 PM
The United States remains committed to its Gulf Arab partners, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Gulf diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, at a time of rapidly shifting regional alliances.
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World
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Region
6/6/2023 10:58:47 AM
Voters in Kuwait were casting ballots on Tuesday for a third time in as many years, with little hope of ending a prolonged gridlock between the government and assertive lawmakers after the judiciary dissolved the legislature earlier this year.
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World
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Region
4/5/2023 11:48:49 AM
Iran has named an ambassador to the United Arab Emirates nearly eight years after his predecessor left, as a thaw in relations with the Gulf Arab states picks up pace.
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World
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Region
8/21/2022 8:08:43 PM
The United Arab Emirates plans to reinstate its ambassador to Iran for the first time in six years, the Emirati Foreign Ministry announced Sunday, as the Gulf Arab federation accelerates efforts to improve ties with the nation it has long viewed as a regional threat.
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World
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Region
7/27/2022 4:34:53 PM
The Emirati and Iranian foreign ministers have held a telephone conversation and discussed boosting ties, UAE state media reported Wednesday, as the Gulf Arab country considers sending an ambassador back to Tehran.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/1/2022 12:39:00 PM
Washington and Tehran have begun indirect nuclear talks in Qatar as hopes of the Gulf Arab countries increasing international supplies of oil have waned.
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World
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Region
3/29/2022 3:15:55 PM
Gulf Arab states were to gather for a summit Tuesday about the yearslong war in Yemen, which the country's Houthi rebels are boycotting because it's taking place in Saudi Arabia, their adversary in the conflict.
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World
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Region
3/15/2022 2:50:20 PM
Gulf Arab countries are seeking to host rare talks between Yemen's warring parties, including the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, in Riyadh at the end of the month, officials said on Tuesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
3/3/2022 4:36:24 PM
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent energy prices surging, but the oil-rich Gulf monarchies have so far resisted Western pressure to raise output, prioritising their own strategic and economic interests.
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World
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Region
2/21/2022 12:46:51 PM
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Qatar on his first visit to a Gulf Arab state Monday for a major gas summit that will be dominated by tensions over Ukraine.
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World
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Region
2/16/2022 6:53:41 PM
Two senior Cabinet ministers in Kuwait submitted their resignations to the prime minister Wednesday, citing political turbulence and the impossibility of reform in the Gulf Arab state.
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World
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Region
1/30/2022 5:47:29 PM
Kuwait said Sunday that a Lebanese response to a list of suggested measures to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries is currently under review.
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World
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Region
1/17/2022 9:45:00 AM
On a trip to the United Arab Emirates, the president of South Korea on Sunday reportedly reached a preliminary multibillion-dollar deal to sell Seoul's surface-to-air missiles to Abu Dhabi and pledged deeper cooperation with the Gulf Arab federation.
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World
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Region
1/2/2022 5:41:54 PM
Authorities in several Gulf countries renewed weather warnings on Sunday as several days of heavy rains batter the usually arid region.
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World
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Region
12/28/2021 8:19:49 PM
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on Tuesday for a national dialogue among the different governing political parties to discuss Lebanon's ties with Gulf countries, the National News Agency reported.
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