Assad’s spectacular defenestration last December, he has joined a growing list of fallen Middle Eastern despots: Reza Pahlavi ...

ADEN, 10th March, 2017 (WAM) -- The rebel Houthi-Saleh militias have seized and looted more than 63 aid ships in the ports of Hodeidah, Sulaif and Aden, since they grabbed power in Yemen from ...

Eleven prisoners at a U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have been handed over to the government of Oman, officials ...

Sanaa, Yemen – Mansour Saleh, a 25-year-old history graduate in Sanaa, has been glued to the political and military developments in Syria. “Stunning”, “mysterious” and “unexpected ...

A pivotal moment in modern history occurred in 2011 when Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, ...

As we reported earlier, the Houthi missile strike on Tel Aviv on Saturday prompted a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "I have instructed our forces to destroy the ...

Israel has launched air strikes in Yemen, targeting several sites controlled by the Houthis At least three people have been killed and 14 injured. It is unclear if they were civilians The head of ...

FILE - Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hang from traffic lights as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, to watch U.S. President Barack Obama ...

Protests forced Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign in November 2011, ending his 33-year rule. Under a deal brokered by Gulf countries, Saleh received immunity and handed his powers to his vice ...

Cairo: Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew. The Middle Eastern and North African nations that attempted to ...

Now it is Syria’s turn to try to get it right. It is hard to draw lessons from the experiences of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, ...

In ancient times Yemen was known as Arabia Felix, Latin for "happy" or "fortunate", due to its high mountains that attracted rain, making it more fertile than much of the Arabian Peninsula.