Authorities in Kuwait say four Kuwaitis detained in Iran were released to the emirate's embassy in Tehran and soon will be returning home, the Associated Press reported.

A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced to death an extremist man accused of killing Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, according to AFP.

A Saudi-led Arab coalition will halt its use of British-made cluster munitions in Yemen, the Saudi government said on Monday, after 20 months of war in which thousands of civilians have been killed and injured in air strikes.

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which it responded to that addressed to Cairo by the Gulf Cooperation council over the church bombing, which left 26 people dead.

The Wall Street Journal reported (Friday December 16, 2016) that Saudi Arabia is reconsidering placing Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) stocks in the USA, after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

Saudi Arabia is determined to prevent external "interference" in neighbouring war-torn Yemen, King Salman said in an annual address on Wednesday.

The leader of Yemen's rebel Huthi government on Wednesday accused Britain of war crimes by supplying weapons that Saudi-led forces were using to "bomb the people".

The official Qatari News Agency (QNA) said that Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani directed to cancel the National Day celebrations to express solidarity with Aleppo.

Iraqi Shi'ite forces fighting Islamic State west of Mosul aim to clear a large strip of land on the border with Syria to prevent the militants melting into the remote desert region and using it as a base for counter attacks, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

The United States has decided to limit military support to Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen because of concerns over widespread civilian casualties and will halt a planned arms sale to the kingdom, U.S. officials told Reuters.

Hunger among Yemen's children has reached an "all time high", with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah opened the new parliament Sunday by declaring that a reduction in public spending is "inevitable" in the face of weak oil prices.

British Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson said accused the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of his country’s strongest allies in the region, of “participating in proxy wars” and “twisting and abusing religion” for political ends.

Sanaa’s newly assigned Foreign Ministry accused the government of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition of opening news battlefronts.

Britain will help Gulf states "push back" against aggressive regional actions by Iran, Prime Minister Theresa May told the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain on Wednesday in a televised address.

Yemen on Tuesday appeared to reject a U.N. plan to end its civil war, saying the roadmap would create a "dangerous international precedent" by legitimizing the rebellion against the country's internationally recognized government.

The United States expressed disappointment on Wednesday at the Yemeni government's reaction to a U.N.-drafted roadmap to end the country's civil war and urged it to accept the proposal as a basis to begin negotiations on a peace agreement.

The offensive against Islamic State in Mosul could take two more months, and even if the group is defeated there it will still pose a threat to Iraq and the West, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting against it said.

An investigative body set up by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday it should apologize for a deadly attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in August that the group said killed 11 people.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani demanded Sunday that President Barack Obama block an extension of sanctions passed by the U.S. Congress, saying Tehran would otherwise “firmly respond.”