Holding nearly 70% of the world’s known oil reserves, the Middle East became indispensable to the global economy. Oil fuels industry, powers transportation, drives agriculture, and supports the ...

President Trump told Gulf leaders that he urgently wants “to make a deal” with Iran to wind down its nuclear program but that ...

Throughout 2012, the UAE’s State Security Apparatus (SSA) launched a campaign of arrests targeting individuals who were members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 2014, the UAE blacklisted 83 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The leaders of four branches of Islam in Lebanon gathered earlier this month ... does not abolish nor weaken this sense of brotherhood.” They also noted that the Quran banns the killing of one Muslim ...

In Israel’s other neighbors, Lebanon and Syria ... Sisi seized power in a coup that ousted a president backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. After a series of wars between the 1940s and 1970s ...

Jordan's decision to formally ban the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, may have come after coordinated pressure from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab ...

The move comes after authorities said they arrested 16 people, including members of the Brotherhood, over an alleged sabotage plot. "It has been decided to ban all activities of the so-called Muslim ...

The Muslim Brotherhood is a political Islamist group founded in Cairo ... The Sunni movement has branches across the Middle East, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. The drastic ...

Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel Jordan said last week it had arrested 16 Muslim Brotherhood members, saying they were trained and financed in Lebanon and were plotting ...