Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have long lured foreign workers with the promise of a tax-free lifestyle, plan to impose a 5 percent tax next year on most goods and services to boost revenue after oil prices collapsed three years ago

Iraq has invited companies to submit statements of interest in building a new pipeline from the northern city of Kirkuk to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan

IMF says Egypt's economic reforms on track, paving the way for the transfer of another $2 billion loan disbursement

Saudi Arabia doles out welfare payments to low, middle-income families, approximately half the kingdom's population

Saudi Arabia announces biggest budget in its history, announcing expenditures of 978 billion riyals ($261 billion) this coming fiscal year

The defense ministers of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece have agreed to step up cooperation in combatting drug, weapons and people trafficking in the eastern Mediterranean and to share information on countering the threat of terrorism

Israel's energy minister says a potential undersea pipeline carrying natural gas from deposits in the eastern Mediterranean to Europe is "very realistic" and could help secure the continent's energy future

On Iraq visit, Saudi oil minister says relations between kingdom and Baghdad are improving

UAE state-run news agency denies claim that Yemeni missile targeted its under-construction nuclear plant

The Latest: UAE state-run news agency denies claim that Yemeni missile targeted its under-construction nuclear plant