Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has embarked on a three-state Gulf tour, beginning with Saudi Arabia, as he seeks to attract foreign investment in Turkey's ailing economy. The visit comes as Turkey battles currency collapse and soaring inflation. The Saudi-Turkish business forum was aimed at enhancing trade and investment relations.

Abu Dhabi, UAE -- The UAE has received a terrorist named Khalaf Abd Al Rahman Humaid Al Rumaithi from the Jordanian authorities.  The UAE's Federal Supreme Court in 2013 sentenced him in absentia to 15 years in prison on charges of establishing a secret organization affiliated with the terrorist Muslim...

Dubai, UAE-- Qatar and Bahrain have agreed to restart flights toward the end of the month, in a sign of warming relations between the estranged countries. According to Bahrain News Agency, the resumption of flights between Bahrain and Qatar “comes within the framework of the brotherly relations between the two...

Authorities in Egypt released two noted businessmaen after some two years in pretrial detention on terrorism-related charges, according to the family. "My father Safwan Thabet and my brother Seif al-Din Thabet are with us", Safwan's daughter Mariam wrote on social media, without telling when the pair were released.

Nearly ten years after their relations broke down, Egypt and Turkey are working to rebuild the ties as the Egyptian president shook hands with his Turkish counterpart in Qatar. The presidency in Cairo has termed it a new "beginning" in ties with Ankara.

Advocacy groups say there are currently about 60,000 political prisoners in the country, an issue that rights groups hope to raise at the United Nations COP27 climate summit, which will open on November 6 in Egypt.

The verdicts, in two different cases involving the killing of policemen, came on Thursday, with eight of the 24 tried in absentia.