A senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday. The strike comes two days after a base in southern Syria, used by the US-led coalition fighting the Daesh group, was assaulted.

With the latest international climate conference just days away, the proposed ban will halt support to new coal power stations that don't have systems that trap the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

John Kerry, the US climate envoy, will be in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to participate in the Middle East Green Initiative Summit.

A report by the International Renewable Energy Agency confirms Covid-19 caused delays and supply chain disruptions, with impacts on jobs varying by country and end use.

The designation as Oscar-qualifying event came despite high tensions between Washington and Tehran, which have had no diplomatic relations since 1979.

Japanese firm Toyota is the world’s biggest carmaker.

Iran and Britain, China, France and Russia besides the EU opened talks in Vienna in April.

Mohamed al-Sadat has long been a fixture of Egypt's political scene. As many as 60,000 political prisoners are serving time in Egyptian jails, according to human rights defenders.

New data out Friday showed $590 million in ransomware-related payments were reported to US authorities in the first half of 2021 alone, setting a pace to beat totals for the whole previous decade as cyber-extortion booms.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled tolerance of cryptocurrencies, but is still not convinced they can replace the US dollar in settling oil trades.

Bitcoin breached the $60,000 mark for the first time since April on growing hopes that US regulators will greenlight the first futures exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency.

The US sees Saudi Arabia as a vital partner and America is committed to the defense of the Kingdom, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features.

Mubadala Capital, the financial investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor Mubadala, has acquired one of the largest Taco Bell Corp. franchisees in the US.

Enrique Mora's visit is a follow-up to consultations between the two sides on matters of shared interest, particularly Iran-EU relations, Afghanistan and the nuclear agreement, the Iranian foreign ministry said.

For the tenth consecutive year, Arab youth have said the UAE is the country they would like to live in the most and the one they would like their own countries to emulate, according to a survey. The 13th Annual ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey, conducted this year by global...

This was the second consultation between the two countries' chief trade negotiators after relations were seriously damaged under former US president Donald Trump.

A new single-member constituency system for electing Iraq's 329 lawmakers is supposed to boost independents versus the traditional political blocs that are largely centered on religious, ethnic and clan affiliations. The election is being held a year early in a rare concession to the youth-led protest movement that broke out...

Tehran threatens Seoul with legal action unless it releases more than $7 billion in funds for oil shipments. Iran was South Korea's third-largest Middle Eastern trade partner before the US unilaterally withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions.

Facebook's previous major scandals barely dented its global dominance but a former employee's damning revelations have put it in a tight spot.

New features unveiled on Wednesday provide users with ways to help in the effort, whether it be driving routes that result in less exhaust being spewed from cars or shopping online for energy-efficient appliances. The latest features will be rolled out in Europe in 2022.

A photo of Saudi Crown Prince with the Qatari emir and the UAE's security adviser shows youthful, physically fit leaders enjoying a friendly, informal get-together, writes Ali Shihabi

Alturki Holding oil arm, the Saudi Sawafi company, has bought out Newsco, the US drilling services company, for an undisclosed sum of money.

Rising oil prices handed a major boost to producers but threaten the global recovery and stoke inflationary pressures because they lift manufacturing costs, which translates into higher consumer prices.

Los Angeles: Tesla chief executive Elon Musk thinks US regulators should take cryptocurrency out of their crosshairs, leaving it free to 'fly', he told a conference in California on Tuesday. The colorful serial entrepreneur, an outspoken digital money fan, shared his view at a Code Conference in Beverly Hills, as...

Turkey still intends to buy a second batch of S-400 missile defense systems from Russia, its president has said.

The US and EU have said at the UN that Iran’s new government has shown no indication it was ready to revive the nuclear accord.

This came after the funding was controversially stripped from a separate bill following a revolt from the left flank of the Democrats. However, the vote was near-unanimous this time, with the funding approved by a 420-9 majority vote.

Both countries signed an MoU to strengthen cooperation in areas of digital economy, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

The United States promised an additional $290 million but said the ultimate solution was to end the war

The forecast for China remained unchanged at 8.5 percent. The growth prospects of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey have also improved. Prospects of Australia, Britain, Japan and Russia were lowered

It was seized by the US Justice Department in 2019, two years after US billionaire David Green opened a museum dedicated to ancient Christian history.

For the second month in a row, Saudi Arabia’s holding of US Treasury securities rose in July, touching $128.1 billion.

The emirates achieves hotel occupancy rate of 62 percent, ahead of the US, UK and Turkey

Under the deal, US will provide 350 contractor technicians and two government officials over two years to handle the maintenance of the Saudi military's Apache and Black Hawk attack helicopters.

Blackstone, the US-based alternative investment management company, is in discussion with VFS Global, the Dubai-based visa outsourcing company, to buy it out for $1.2 billion.

DUBAI: The UAE's non-oil trade rose to AED 1.403 trillion ($371 billion), reflecting the country's robust trade exchanges despite the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic The Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics (FCSA) data said the UAE commanded a coveted position globally and regionally in merchandise trade, with its...

President Joe Biden spoke with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders’ top advisers has been largely unfruitful in the early going of the Biden presidency.

The United States on Thursday praised the Taliban as businesslike and cooperative in facilitating the first evacuation of Americans from Afghanistan since the US military withdrawal.

The latest report comes with diplomatic efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers at a standstill. In February, Iran suspended some IAEA inspections in response to the United States' refusal to lift sanctions on Iran and also limited IAEA access to monitoring equipment such as...

Doha's long-standing hotline to the Taliban has helped Qatar burst onto the world stage with its efforts to assist Kabul reopen its airport.

Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said President Joe Biden was following the same "dead end" policies as Donald Trump. Khatibzadeh’s remarks came a day after the US Treasury announced financial sanctions against four Iranians accused of planning the kidnapping in the US of an American journalist of Iranian descent.

The Taliban celebrated the US withdrawal, which was completed on Monday, as a major victory after taking control of Afghanistan last month. A long line of green Humvees idled in single file on a highway outside Kandahar, the spiritual birthplace of the militant movement, many with white-and-black Taliban flags attached...

Despite the rise in the GDP of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) economies to 1.6 percent in Q2 2021 from 0.6 percent in the previous quarter, it still remains below pre-pandemic levels.

After the complete withdrawal of the US forces, questions remain as to who will run the security of the airport and operate the logistics. The Taliban have insisted they want to keep the civilian airport open, but without guarantees over security, commercial airlines simply won't operate out of Kabul.

Taliban fighters swept into the airport and fired weapons into the sky in jubilation as the last of the American troops left on Monday night.

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country will maintain presence in Iraq no matter what Americans decide. After meeting Iraqi president Mustafa al-Khademi, Macron said Daesh remains a threat and the fight against these groups is a priority of Iraqi government.

The United States urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent a...

The two countries will continue to cooperate to see to it that there is no resurgence of ISIS in Iraq.

The pandemic has hit the worst in the Middle East and it grapples with a fifth and the strongest yet wave of infections amid crippling economic sanctions. The country recorded its highest single day death toll on Aug. 24, with 709 fatalities registered by the Health Ministry in 24 hours.