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September 21, 2016

Pakistani Christian jailed for blasphemy over Facebook like

Pakistani police say they have arrested a 16-year-old Christian boy on blasphemy charges after he "liked" an "inappropriate" ...

September 19, 2016

Saudi police uncover IS-linked terrorist network; arrest 17

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Monday said its forces had uncovered an Islamic State group-linked terrorist network that ...

September 19, 2016

Amnesty: US bomb used in Saudi-led strike on Yemen hospital

Amnesty International says it has evidence that a Saudi-led coalition battling Yemeni rebels dropped a U.S.-made bomb on a ...

September 15, 2016

Yemen's rebels say they captured post inside Saudi Arabia

Yemen's Houthi rebels and allied troops have captured a Saudi military post in the border region of Jizan, according to ...

September 13, 2016

Oil prices hit by downward revision to global oil demand

Oil prices took a pounding Tuesday after a leading industry group said global oil demand growth is slowing by more than ...

September 13, 2016

The Latest: 20 countries seeking Syria peace may meet in NY

The Latest on developments in Syria, where a cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia has come into effect (all times ...

September 11, 2016

Egyptian adviser to murdered Italian student's family freed

An Egyptian court has released from detention a rights activist who had worked as a legal consultant to the family of Italian ...

September 10, 2016

Muslim pilgrims begin hajj, but this year without Iranians

Close to 2 million people from around the world began performing the first rites of the Islamic hajj pilgrimage on Saturday, ...

September 07, 2016

Iran president: 'Punish' Saudi Arabia for 2015 hajj disaster

Iran's president on Wednesday called on the Muslim world to "punish" Saudi Arabia following last year's hajj crush and ...

September 06, 2016

Yemeni official says rebels forced children to carry arms

A Yemeni minister with the internationally recognized government on Tuesday accused the country's Shiite rebels of forcing ...

September 06, 2016

Saudi Arabia's top cleric says Iran's leaders 'not Muslims'

Saudi Arabia's top cleric is revving up the kingdom's rhetoric against Iran, saying in comments published on Tuesday that ...

September 05, 2016

Iran's top leader says Saudis 'murdered' hajj pilgrims

Iran's supreme leader on Monday said Saudi Arabian authorities "murdered" Muslim pilgrims who were injured during last year's ...

August 31, 2016

Yemeni rebels: Saudi-led airstrikes kill 16 civilians

Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a house in the northern Yemeni city of Saada in the early hours of Wednesday, ...

August 31, 2016

Political issues weigh on upcoming G-20 summit in China

While the global economy will dominate at this weekend's summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market ...

August 29, 2016

Islamic State bombing kills 54 government recruits in Yemen

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Monday killed at least 54 ...

August 28, 2016

Iraq requests new Saudi envoy after assassination remarks

Iraq's Foreign Ministry said the government on Sunday formally requested that the Saudi ambassador in Baghdad be replaced ...

August 25, 2016

Kerry in Saudi Arabia for talks on Yemen, Syria conflicts

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks ...

August 25, 2016

Egyptian lawyer in solitary confinement for defying el-Sissi

From the day he was imprisoned more than 100 days ago, Egyptian rights lawyer Malek Adly has been locked in solitary ...

August 25, 2016

UN rights chief seeks international probe of Yemen violence

The U.N. human rights chief on Thursday called for an international investigation of rights abuses and violence in Yemen's ...