All news on the topic: Middle East

The Saudi Pro League has wreaked havoc on the Premier League already this summer by signing some big name stars on huge wages and it seems the exodus isn't over yet

Kuwait City is heating up faster than the world average with temperatures regularly exceeding 50C in the summer - dwarfing the heatwave felt in parts of Europe last month

James Moore meets the veteran set to represent Team UK at the Invictus Games, who lost his left leg following a horror football injury

Before his days as even a YouTube star, Paul was an high school wrestler in Ohio where he suffered a series of defeats among many wins alongside his brother Logan

The Manchester City boss admitted that he did not want to lose Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez to Pro League club Al-Ahly - but claimed that even the cash-rich treble winners were powerless to prevent the Algerian winger from joining football’s exodus to the desert

The Liverpool captain's exit from the club is edging increasingly closer and a video of Jordan Henderson seemingly saying his goodbyes has now emerged on social media

Kylian Mbappe could bank huge sums if he chooses to make a world-record move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal, who are prepared to pay the Frenchman more than £1m-per-day

The World Health Organisation said it would continue to monitor the situation in the region after a 28-year-old male was left in a life-threatening condition by a virus

Paul Routledge says his father Harry worked as a booking office clerk at the station in Normanton, West Yorks – famous for its marshalling yards and known as the Crewe of the Coalfields

The former Man United ace 'would be welcomed in the Gulf', despite the allegations he was acquitted of in a court case which ended last week

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dramatically scrapped a wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia after the Crimea bridge was blown up again

A high pressure band means Brits are escaping the dangerous temperatures currently spreading across parts of Europe, with deathly temperatures of 45C forecast for Italy and Croatia

Researchers from North Carolina State University analysed state parks in the area where they found the mites which carry the bacteria which causes scrub typhus - a disease which can shut down the heart and lungs

World heavyweight champion Fury won't be putting his WBC title on the line against Ngannou, with the duo instead fighting for the title of the "baddest man on the planet"

In a rare crossover fight, world heavyweight champions Fury from boxing and Ngannou from MMA will face each other under exhibition rules

The Chelsea icon has asked Romelu Lukaku to contact him as rumours over his potential exit from Stamford Bridge continue to circulate amid talk of a move to Saudi Arabia

Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, survived the Taliban and got his family to the US for a better life only to be shot dead while working as a ride-share driver in Washington DC

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is being spread by ticks across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with scientists warning it is "highly likely" it will reach Britain

Specialists are carrying out tests on DNA samples from the remains of a terror suspect collected after a cave was bombed in the Hamrin Mountains in north east Iraq

The UK is staring down the barrel of another major heatwave this summer - dubbed a 'heat dome' - with a chance of temperatures exceeding a scorching 40C for the second year in a row

The former Health Secretary told the Covid-19 Inquiry that Britain wrongly prepared for flu and mistakenly assumed herd immunity was inevitable

Jorge Mas has excited Inter Miami fans after the managing owner of the MLS team confirmed that two more players would be joining Lionel Messi - who already agreed to sign

President Zelensky called the aftermath an 'environmental bomb of mass destruction', as fears grew of an eco disaster from polluted waters, partly caused by oil leaking from the dam’s machinery

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has taken majority stakes in Al Nassr, Al Hilal, Al Ahli and Al Ittihad as the Middle East becomes an increasingly tempting proposition for Europe's leading stars

Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted he is still motivated to perform at the top level having already enjoyed a career lasting two decades as a professional footballer