Saudi Arabia aims to salvage financial district
The plan to build a financial district from scratch was viewed by Saudi Arabia's neighbours as among the glossiest excesses of the kingdom's oil...
Major powers fail to agree new date for Syria peace talks
Major power foreign ministers failed to agree a new date to resume Syrian peace talks at a meeting on Tuesday, and the opposition said...
Domestic focus may limit clout of $2 trillion Saudi fund
Saudi Arabia aims to create the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund, a $2 trillion behemoth that can throw its weight around global markets, but...
Kerry meets King Salman to discuss Syria before Vienna talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the fragile truce in Syria, before broader...
OPEC says oil glut 'may ease' by 2017 as non-cartel supply drops
OPEC said Friday a global crude glut that has squeezed the market and sent prices plunging over the past year "may be easing" as...
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese Shi'ite group said on Friday, the biggest blow to...
Syria's besieged Daraya to get first aid since 2012
Aid agencies are to deliver relief supplies to the besieged Syrian rebel-held town of Daraya on Thursday, the first since 2012, the International Committee...
Suicide bomber strikes Yemen military convoy, kills 8
A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 17, including a senior commander, when he rammed a car laden with explosives into...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Baker praises Saudi Aramco IPO plans
Saudi Arabia needs "fundamental change," and a public sale of shares in Saudi Aramco, the national oil company, may be part of the solution,...
Oil market recovery will continue, says OPEC chief
OPEC president Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said on Tuesday that the current oil market recovery would continue into the second quarter of the year...
