Qatar's international airport is to charge passengers an exit tax as the energy-reliant emirate adjusts to falling oil prices.

Islamic State (IS) is losing territory, its finances are being drained and the number of foreign fighters recruited has reportedly down to a trickle, dropped by as much as 90 percent from a high of 2,000 a month in the past year.

Gulf nation Qatar has agreed to increase monthly salary for the skilled Bangladeshi female migrants and domestic workers from Tk 19,350 to 25,800 (QAR900 to 1200).

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have released 10 US sailors held for entering its territorial waters in the Gulf, state television reported.

"A breeding ground for violence" the mayor of Molenbeek called her town, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam.

Kuwait police arrested a foreign man for allegedly begging although the man has 500,000 Kuwaiti Dinar (over Rs 10 crore) in his bank account reports PTI, Dubai.

Yemeni foreign minister calls for Gulf Arab states to intervene to prevent the advance of Shia Houthi rebels into the south of the country