Fashionable women, dark-haired Saudis and blonde Eastern Europeans alike, fill the gold-trimmed halls of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, marking the start of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever fashion week.

President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended French weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, but said he was

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday said a soldier who shot a Palestinian along the Gaza border in a video that has been

Russia yesterday condemned "unacceptable" and "indiscriminate" fire by the Israeli army in clashes that have left some 30 Palestinians

Saudi Arabia is to use French expertise to set up a national opera and orchestra under an agreement signed yesterday that underlined the

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday said there were "no naive people" in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after days of

A rebel ambush in Yemen killed dozens of Sudanese soldiers belonging to a Saudi-led coalition fighting on the side of the government,

Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran where they left the image of a US flag on screens

A high-ranking Islamic State commander in Afghanistan has been killed in an airstrike, officials said yesterday, as Afghan and US forces

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians as thousands protested and clashes erupted along the Gaza border yesterday, a week after a

Saudi Arabia's first cinema in over three decades will open on April 18 in Riyadh, authorities said Wednesday, after a ban was lifted

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia's air defence had intercepted a missile that the armed

Palestinians yesterday readied for new protests along the Gaza border and Israel warned that its open-fire rules would not change

Saudi Arabia's first cinema in more than 35 years will open on April 18 in Riyadh, the capital, the authorities say after agreeing with AMC Entertainment Holdings to open up to 40 theatres over the next five years.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday cancelled an agreement with the UN refugee agency aimed at avoiding forced deportations of thousands of African migrants only hours after having announced the deal himself.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince said in a published interview that Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land, another public sign of an apparent thawing in ties between the two countries. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted by US magazine The Atlantic as saying:

Israel announced yesterday it had reached a deal with the UN refugee agency to cancel a controversial plan to deport African migrants and replace it with a new one that will see thousands sent to Western countries. A minimum of 16,250 migrants will be resettled in unspecified Western nations under the agreement announced in a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

A final deal has been reached for fighters and civilians to leave the last opposition-held pocket of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said yesterday, paving the way for Syria's regime to retake the onetime rebel enclave near Damascus. The deal brokered by regime ally Russia would see fighters with the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction leave Ghouta's main town of Douma for opposition-held territory in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Israel rejected calls for an independent probe yesterday after its soldiers killed 16 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more when a major demonstration led to clashes along the border with the Gaza Strip.

Gazans buried their dead yesterday with calls for "revenge" a day after a major demonstration led to clashes that saw Israeli forces kill 16