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DUBAI: A senior United Arab Emirates official said on Saturday Turkey's policy towards Arab states was not reasonable and advised it to respect their sovereignty. Relations between the two countries have been strained by Ankara’s support for Qatar after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and...

By:ANADOLU In the Qatari capital Doha, top Turkish and Qatari diplomats on Thursday praised the good state of bilateral ties between the two countries. After arriving at the final stop of his Gulf tour on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held a joint press conference with...

“We announce our support for our brothers in Somalia and condemn all the UAE regime (meddling) in Somalia’s affairs,” the chairman of Yemen's Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, said in a message posted on his official Twitter account on Friday. (AhlulBayt News Agency) - Yemen’s...

Agreement reached on increasing efforts to end tension between Gulf states and Qatar, sources from Erdogan's office say. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with Saudi Arabia's King Salman and its new crown prince over the phone and they agreed to increase efforts to...

Leaked emails from the UAE ambassador to the US show a sustained campaign against Qatar and Kuwait. Qatar's official news agency was hacked last week and fake remarks critical of USforeign policy were posted on its website, wrongly attributed to Qatar's leader. Now, a series of...

Dubai International Airport and its flag carrier Emirates began implementing a ban on laptops and tablets on direct flights to the US Saturday, on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. Around 1.1 million people are expected to pass through the world's busiest...

Horndiplomat-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received President of Djibouti Ismaïl Omar Guelleh in Jeddah on Monday. They discussed a number of regional and international issues and ways to further strengthen bilateral ties. — SPA reports Meanwhile, The Saudi's crown Prince Mohamed Bin...

The Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen said Monday that their political leader, Saleh al-Sammad, was killed last week in a Saudi-led airstrike. Sammad was the most senior Houthi official to be killed by the coalition since it intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to...

By Enes Kanli African nation says it has strong ties ‘with brother Doha’ ASMARA, Eritrea-Eritrea on Friday declined a rewquest by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. The African nation’s foreign ministry said in a written statement it "rejected" the...

DHAHRAN: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday opened an Arab League summit by criticising US President Donald Trump's decision to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "We reiterate our rejection of the US decision on Jerusalem," the king said in a speech in Dhahran in eastern...