Yemen

Air traffic to Yemen's main southern city of Aden was suspended early on March 19 after fighting broke out between supporters and opponents of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, an airport source told AFP.        

Talks aimed at pulling Yemen out of crisis are open to the Shiite Huthi militia which seized power in Sanaa last month, Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah said on March 12.
      

When Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi called March 9 for the creation of a "unified Arab force" to battle the spread of extremist groups, he actually used a rare figure of speech: A triple oxymoron.

Unified?

At least two militants and two soldiers died in an al Qaeda assault on an army base in southern Yemen early on March 9, officials and residents said, in another sign of unravelling security.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has sought to reassure some of the world's leading investors about political and economic stability in Turkey during his meetings in New York. His bid to brush off escalating concerns about the investment climate in Turkey follow a series of increasingly strident remarks from President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an about the Central Bank's policies.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday briefed wary Gulf ministers about his latest nuclear talks with Iran as Washington and its regional allies seek to stabilise a troubled Middle East.

A day before meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?s new King Salman met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in a move that none of the parties want to correlate with a U.S.-supported move by the Saudis to form an anti-Iranian, Sunni front in the region.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, who met in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, have agreed to boost support to the Syrian opposition.

A Saudi Arabian diplomat returned to Riyadh on March 2 after being released by kidnappers in Yemen where he spent three years as a hostage, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
   

Kuwait has joined its Gulf partners Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and decided to reopen its Yemeni embassy in Aden, instead of the militia-controlled capital Sanaa.