Nasa astronaut Don Pettit has captivated the internet with a striking photograph taken from space, showing the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca shimmering .

In the Middle East, where hates flare and die with the course of the sun, there is no letup in the feud between Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who leads the Arab world’s revolutionary camp, and Saudi ...

Middle-East hands tend to assume that they cannot go far wrong in their predictions by being pessimists. The past two years have done much to vindicate that view. But lately there has been cause for ...

Saudi Arabia has “no ego” to prevent it from cancelling mega-projects tied to the kingdom’s Vision 2030 plan, the Saudi ...

At its start, 2023 was supposed to be a year of regional de-escalation in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia agreed to a detente with Iran in March; it was also talking with America about a three-way deal ...

new video loaded: Deaths Reported as Heat Soars During Hajj Pilgrimage Muslims from around the world faced scorching temperatures as they traveled to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the ...

Amid the first tentative steps toward peace in Southeast Asia, the Middle East edged closer to an explosive new war between the Arabs and Israel. The fresh hostilities flared, as usual, in the name of ...

The pope is seeking to make communities feel less isolated and to encourage them to remain in their ancestral lands.