A sculpture of Liverpool and Egypt football star Mohamed Salah unveiled in his home country is raising eyebrows on social media. The artwork was put on display on Sunday at the World Youth Forum (WYF) being held in Sharm al-Sheikh. It depicts the striker with his arms out wide in the goalscoring celebration he is […]

Police conduct search in a villa in the city of Yalova, southeast of Istanbul, as Khashoggi’s body remains missing. Police are searching a residence in the Turkish province of Yalova in relation to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to state media. Media reports on Monday said that police forces, who arrived at […]

LONDON — Matthew Hedges, the British academic who was sentenced last week to life in prison by the United Arab Emirates on spying charges, was pardoned on Monday with immediate effect, the state news media reported. The conviction of Mr. Hedges, and the severity of the sentence, had been met with outrage in Britain, where […]

UAE issues presidential pardon for British scholar Matthew Hedges, who was sentenced to life in prison for spying. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued a presidential pardon for British scholar Matthew Hedges, who was sentence to life in prison last week for spying. Hedges, 31, was among more than 700 people pardoned by the […]

CAIRO (REUTERS) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Bahrain on Sunday (Nov 25), continuing his first trip abroad since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul drew global condemnation. The prince landed in Bahraini capital Manama on Sunday for the second leg of his Arab tour and was later received […]

After seven devastating years of civil war in Syria, which have left more than 350,000 people dead, President Bashar al-Assad appears close to victory against the forces trying to overthrow him. So how has Mr Assad got so close to winning this bloody, brutal war? A joint investigation by BBC Panorama and BBC Arabic shows […]

RIYADH (BLOOMBERG) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been spending remarkably more time with his father in public since the international condemnation of last month’s murder of a US-based newspaper columnist. They shook hands with Saudis on a tour of conservative heartlands and last week inaugurated a giant industrial park together. US President […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Muslims worldwide on Saturday (Nov 24) to unite against the United States, instead of “rolling out red carpets for criminals”. Washington in May reimposed sanctions on Teheran, after President Donald Trump pulled out of a 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran under which they had been […]

ROME — The Houthi rebels who control the key Yemeni port of Hudaydah have agreed to enter talks about handing some control to the United Nations, its envoy to Yemen said during a visit to the city on Friday. The initiative, although tentative, added to momentum for peace talks expected to start in the coming […]

WASHINGTON — Before Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery: Was the prince laying the groundwork for building an atomic bomb? The 33-year-old heir to the Saudi throne had been overseeing a negotiation with […]