Middle East Travel News

Qatar Airways today announced route expansion on three continents together with a huge increase in capacity in Pakistan as part of the Doha-based carrier's continued aggressive growth strategy.

We moved from Auckland to Riyadh in 2009 because my husband gained employment with a large dairy company.

They came from abroad to volunteer for IDF combat service and defend Israel, but now lone soldiers serving in the Paratroop Brigade have been left with a bitter taste in their mouths.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.

With a vibrant, young population complementing a rich Byzantine and Ottoman heritage, the city unfurls itself as the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, determined modernity and historic eminence.

Opening in Spring 2016, Shaza Doha, is located in the heart of the cultural district, within walking distance of major tourist attractions, including the famed Museum of Islamic Art, the Qatar National Museum and Souq Waqif.

A five-year-old British girl who died in a pool at a hotel in Egypt has been named by her family, according to reports.

A surprising and ambitious newcomer on the international scene and in the politics of the Middle East is the Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar, a country that became independent in 1971 when Britain ended its protectorate there.

An Emirati man walks past a tourist posing for a photo near the Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world, in and the Middle East is aiming to grow its assets by 15% this year following the significant rise in Islamic finance activity in the Gulf region.

Horizontal: it's one of curator Yuko Hasegawa's preferred words, though she is anything but.

A smuggler carries food from Kentucky Fried Chicken through an underground tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt in Rafah.

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is to bar expats from visiting public hospitals in mornings, local media said yesterday, in a decision activists labelled as "racist". The decision follows complaints in parliament of Kuwaiti patients having to wait for treatment at public health facilities because of the large number of expats.

Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing and the people are forced to beg, as RT's Lucy Kafanov reported from the war-torn country.

Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Towar Al Kuwari , vice chairman of Qatar Chamber, and other officials visiting stalls at the Perfume Exhibition in Doha Exhibition Centre yesterday.

From left: Dr Abdullah Al Sulaiti, Deputy Director for Research and Collections of the National Museum of Qatar; Abdulrahman Saud Musameh, Director of Museum at the Bahraini Ministry of Information; Sheikh Jassim bin Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Museum and Nasser Al Hammadi, Secretary of the National Museum of Qatar, during ... (more)

Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has long been a country apart. It has its share of foreign tourists seeking sun and sand on the Red Sea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at his Black Sea residence in Sochi on Friday, the Kremlin said.

Last weekend Ireland again placed itself in the vanguard of anti-Israel activism in the European Union.

As President Barack Obama struggles to define America's position in Syria, events threaten to overtake his deliberations.

Tripod Studio Gallery, has teamed with award-winning photographer, Peter Carapetian, to restore and release 63 rare photographs of Iran.