Tag: Asia

Rashed al-Jalahma, 22, has lived almost his whole life in Qatar, but he now faces the decision of whether to ...

Kuwaiti FM says Qatar is willing to hold dialogue with Arab states that have cut diplomatic ties with Doha. Kuwait ...

A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a professed member of the Islamic State group to life in prison for an ...

The price of a pack of cigarettes doubled for Saudi Arabian smokers on Sunday under first-time tax measures to help ...

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested a businessman accused of being a major figure in the Islamist group blamed for a ...

Search crews in Myanmar have now recovered the bodies of nearly half of those who died in last week's military ...

Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome ...

FIFA is confident the diplomatic crisis sweeping Qatar will normalise and not threaten the 2022 World Cup, the organisation's president, ...

Iran has sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran's national carrier told AFP on Sunday, days after Gulf countries ...

Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the ...

Energy giant Qatar Petroleum said in a statement on Saturday that it was "business as usual" despite a spiralling diplomatic ...

Barcelona fans in Saudi Arabia could be punished with up to 15 years in prison for wearing their team’s colours. ...

The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by ...

Turkey's decision to station troops at a base in Qatar aims to ensure the emirate's security after Saudi Arabia and ...

Iran voiced its opposition on Saturday to an announcement by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region that it will organise a vote ...

Syrian pro-government forces now hold more than a fifth of the country's strategic desert, the army said Saturday, after reaching ...

Amnesty International warned Saturday of the "heartbreak and fear" being suffered by potentially thousands of ordinary individuals because of the ...

Moscow called on Saturday for dialogue between Qatar and its neighbours in the Gulf, promising help in mediating the crisis, ...

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by ...

United States special forces are providing support to the Philippine military battling to dislodge Islamist militants in a southern city, ...