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Asharq Al Awsat Saudi Arabia and Qatar drew home advantage in the fourth round of Asia qualifying for the 2026 World Cup on Thursday. In October, Qatar will host Group A that also contains the United ...

Saudi Arabia, who are attempting to qualify for a seventh World Cup since 1994, will host Group A and open against Indonesia ...

Patrick Kuivert's Indonesia were on Thursday handed a tough draw for the final round of Asian qualifying as they try to reach ...

France and Saudi Arabia are co-chairing a United Nations conference on July 28-29 at U.N. Headquarters in New York to advance the two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Titled the ...

If many countries choose to recognize Palestine but fail to confront the reality of escalating Israeli domination of the ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

The Middle East is poised to overtake Asia as the world's second-largest gas producer by 2025, trailing only North America, ...

Middle East gas production likely to reach 70 Bcf per day this year, potentially exceeding expected 68.3 Bcfd output from ...

Iran is seeking to deepen economic ties with the China-led bloc amid US sanctions and the aftermath of last month's war with ...

WWE Hall of Famer JBL argued that WWE was not jeopardizing its wrestlers' safety by traveling to Saudi Arabia just days after ...

Trump, who scorns multilateralism and prefers bilateral muscle-flexing, views this growing coalition as a direct threat to ...