Ride-hailing service Uber is under pressure in Dubai, one of the Middle East's major markets, after the emirate's transport regulator signed an agreement with local rival Careem ...

The Palestinian government decided on Tuesday to delay municipal elections for up to four months after the high court ruled they should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip.

A Red Cross staffer freed after almost a year in captivity in Yemen was held for ransom not for political reasons, diplomatic sources in Oman said on Tuesday.

The United States yesterday suspended negotiations with Russia on efforts to revive a failed ceasefire in Syria and set up a joint military cell to target militants.

The UN Security Council yesterday was considering a draft resolution imposing a ceasefire in Syria’s war-battered city of Aleppo but Russia dismissed the measure as a political ploy.

The Palestinian High Court yesterday ordered municipal elections only in the West Bank and not the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, possibly ending hopes of the first competitive Palestinian polls in a decade.

The State of Qatar participated in the 10th meeting of GCC public prosecutors, attorney-generals and heads of public investigation bodies and the public prosecution which was held in Riyadh yesterday.

Passenger traffic through Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, rose 6.1% from a year earlier to a record 7.73mn people in August, the airport’s operator said yesterday.

The largest hospital in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo was "completely destroyed" in air strikes on Monday, the medical organisation that supports it said.

A leading Egyptian al Qaeda figure who joined its Syrian offshoot the Nusra Front and became a prominent figure in the militant group was killed in a drone attack in rebel-held Idlib province, two jihadist sources said on Monday.

Suicide bombers struck two Shiite-majority areas of the Iraqi capital Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30, officials said, attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.

Bahrain's top court rejected on Monday a request to release Shia opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, who is serving a nine-year jail term on charges of inciting hatred and forceful regime change.