DONALD TRUMP TO INHERIT DRONE ASSASSINATION PROGRAMME WHICH HAS 'NO EFFECTIVE RULES'

This lack of transparency has made it difficult to challenge assertions that drone strikes are fundamentally safe for civilians... READ MORE›

THE ARAB WORLD'S WEALTHIEST NATIONS ARE DOING NEXT TO NOTHING FOR SYRIA'S REFUGEES

Why are Saudi Arabia and its oil-rich neighbors doing so little for Syria's refugees?... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AIRLINER CRASHES IN CENTRAL SINAI EGYPT SAYS

CAIRO -- A Russian passenger airplane carrying 224 people crashed early Saturday in the central Sinai Peninsula, according to officials in Cairo and Moscow... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH MYSTERY DEEPENS AS OFFICIALS DIFFER

Metrojet officials also dismissed claims by the Islamic State that its operatives felled the plane... READ MORE›

RUSSIA MOURNS AS OFFICIALS SEEK CAUSE OF JET CRASH IN EGYPT

In Egypt, search crews had transferred 163 bodies from the site to Cairo hospitals and morgues by Sunday... READ MORE›

The United States has identified ISIS targets in Iraq over the past several weeks... READ MORE›

CANADA'S 'SUPERMAN' TRUDEAU PRAISED IN ARAB MEDIA FOR WELCOMING SYRIAN REFUGEES

Pm justin trudeau called 'superman' for taking in syrian refugees... READ MORE›

NO SURVIVORS AS RUSSIAN AIRLINER COMES DOWN WITH 224 PEOPLE ON BOARD

A commercial plane with 17 children and 207 adults on board travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg crashes in northern Sinai... READ MORE›

AL QAEDA IN YEMEN SAYS US STRIKE KILLED LEADER

BAGHDAD -- Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen released a video statement on Tuesday confirming the death of its leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, in an American missile strike... READ MORE›

US HOSTAGE'S FAMILY IN VIDEO APPEAL

In a video posted on YouTube, Mr Somers' mother and brother said he was only trying to do good things for the Yemeni population ... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS: RICH ARAB NATIONS, QATAR, UAE, SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT AND BAHRAIN STILL NOT HELPING

Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states along the Persian Gulf are not only close to Syria, but are very wealthy... READ MORE›

OBAMA READYING REQUEST TO USE FORCE AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE

American military officials maintained that Islamic State fighters had captured the Jordanian pilot, First Lt... READ MORE›

NO SURVIVORS AFTER RUSSIAN AIRLINER CRASHES IN EGYPTA??S SINAI PENINSULA

Russian tourists flock to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula every year, where temperatures remain high throughout the winter... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS: WHY AREN'T THE RICH GULF ARAB STATES DOING MORE?

But the Gulf states have also stood out for their decision to pledge no that is zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees... READ MORE›

ABDUL KARIM AL-ERYANI YEMENI POLITICIAN WHO BROKERED ARAB SPRING PEACE DIES AT 81

Mustapha Noman, a former ambassador to Spain, called Mr. Eryani the last statesman Yemen had, and will have, for another generation... READ MORE›

AL-QAEDA GROUP 'THREATENS TO KILL US HOSTAGE'

The journalist was abducted in Yemen in September 2013... READ MORE›

WARNING THAT KOREAN PENINSULA COULD BECOME NEW QUAKE ZONE AFTER SERIES OF TREMORS IN THE SOUTH

Geologists suggested that the Korean Peninsula is now feeling the affects of the seismic activity that has rattled Japan in the last six years... READ MORE›

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL PROVOKES SHARP REACTIONS ACROSS THE ARAB WORLD

Iran has long branded itself as the lodestar of the resistance, by which it means the regional forces opposed to the United States and Israel... READ MORE›

US NUCLEAR BOMBERS FLY OVER KOREAN PENINSULA AFTER NORTH'S NUCLEAR TEST

South Korea does not have nuclear weapons and relies on its US alliance as a deterrent to the North... READ MORE›

A ROADMAP FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

Hezbollah has been wary of Sunni-backed militants that threaten to bring the war to Lebanon if Hezbollah doesn't get out of Syria... READ MORE›

ARAB LEAGUE LABELS HEZBOLLAH A 'TERRORIST' GROUP

Nasrallah's remarks This Arab League decision came a day after Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leadar, accused Saudi Arabia of pressuring Lebanon to silence his group... READ MORE›

The Charlie Hebdo attackers, brothers from Paris, claimed they were from AQAP -- which is considered the most violent branch of al Qaeda... READ MORE›

ARAB LEAGUE BACKS SAUDIS IN IRAN ROW

Saudi Arabia and Iran find themselves on opposing sides of the wars in Syria and in Yemen... READ MORE›

SYRIA IRAQ YEMEN LIBYA TOP ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT AGENDA

Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya top Arab League summit agenda... READ MORE›

ARAB SPRING ANNIVERSARY: PROTESTERS DEFY CRACKDOWN

Despite heavy security presence and arrests, demonstrators take to the streets in Egypt to mark 2011 uprising... READ MORE›

TERROR-BOMBING SUSPECT AHMAD RAHAMI SHARES COMMON 'LONE WOLF' TRAITS

Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist whoA killed 13 people atA Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, was also inspired by al-Awlaki, with whom he'd exchanged emails before his attack... READ MORE›

THE OTHER TIME MOSCOW WENT TO FIGHT FOR AN EMBATTLED ARAB LEADER

However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›

THIS SAUDI DANCE IS ALL THE RAGE IN ARAB WORLD, BUT IT COULD GET YOU ARRESTED

The dance has also triggered the ire of conservative columnists and critics of social media in Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›

'WE DIDN'T NEED A REVOLUTION'

He was in Tahrir Square in the heart of the Egyptian capital, the nexus of the Arab Spring revolution... READ MORE›

DUBAI IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES A CENTRE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Imagine if you were told of well-paid work in a new country, far from your impoverished home... READ MORE›

IRISH AVIATION AUTHORITY DIRECTS IRISH AIRLINES TO AVOID SINAI PENINSULA

THE Irish Aviation Authority IAA has directed Irish airlines to avoid the Sinai Peninsula, following the crash of a Russian plane there last weekend... READ MORE›

'ARAB SPRING' COST MIDDLE EAST ECONOMIES $600BN

ESCWA 'Arab Spring' cost Middle East economies 600bn... READ MORE›

SAUDIS BLAME FUNERAL HALL BOMBING ON MISTAKE

The Saudi-led coalition bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen has said it attacked a funeral hall in the capital, Sanaa, based on bad information ... READ MORE›

MEANWHILE IN THE PERSIAN GULF... A VERY IMPATIENT PRINCE 'MIGHT KILL HIS KING', CLAIMS AN IRANIAN GENERAL

Washington The war of words between regional nemeses Iran and Saudi Arabia has taken a curious, if not outrageous, turn... READ MORE›

OBAMA HOSTS SAUDI PRINCE SALMAN AT WHITE HOUSE

WATCH What does Saudi Arabia want for Yemen and Syria?... READ MORE›

KERRY HOLDS TALKS ON SYRIA CRISIS IN SAUDI ARABIA

Source Agencies US secretary hopes to strengthen cessation of hostilities in Syria before international talks in Vienna over crisis... READ MORE›

LEOPARDS AND LIONS ARE DYING AS YEMEN BURNS

Earlier this month, the United Nations' World Food Program warned that the city of Taiz, in the war-ravaged south of the country, faced imminent famine... READ MORE›

GENERAL SAYS SAUDI ARABIA SET TO DEPLOY TROOPS TO SYRIA

Saudi Arabia is deeply involved in neighbouring Yemen's civil war, where it is fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels both on the ground and from the air... READ MORE›

SAUDI SAYS READY TO TAKE PART IN ANY U.S.-LED GROUND OPERATIONS IN SYRIA

(Reporting by Ali Abdelaty; Writing by Sami Aboudi; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu in Washington; Editing by Dominic Evans and Alison Williams)... READ MORE›

SAUDI-IRAN DISPUTE JEOPARDIZES YEMEN PEACE TALKS

Days after the break-off, Tehran accused Saudi Arabia of bombing its embassy in Yemen's capital of Sanaa, an accusation vigorously denied by Riyadh... READ MORE›

CHINA OFFERS SUPPORT FOR YEMEN GOVERNMENT AS XI VISITS SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia and China said in a statement on Wednesday that the two countries affirmed their support for the unity, independence and sovereignty of Yemen... READ MORE›

IRAN PAVES WAY FOR SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED WITH NUCLEAR DEAL COMPLIANCE

Iran has met the terms of the International Nuclear Agreement, according to verification by the UN's nuclear agency, and the U... READ MORE›

THE TOP FIVE MIDDLE EAST STORIES FOR 2016

Lyse Doucet, the BBC's chief international correspondent, explains the Middle East stories that are likely to dominate in 2016... READ MORE›