Tired of cheap oil, Saudis eye price boost to drive Aramco IPO
Two years after triggering an oil price war, Saudi Arabia has seemingly had enough of cheap crude amid budget pressures, fear of a future...
ISIS video shows ‘Russian spy agent’ beheaded
A video released online by ISIS has purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had...
US defense chief says Turkey must control its border with Syria
U.S. defense chief Ash Carter said on Tuesday Turkey and other countries should do more in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), including...
Netanyahu vows crackdown on ‘Arab crime’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Saturday the murder of two people in Tel Aviv by a shooter suspected of being an Arab Israeli,...
Israel shoots down Syrian warplane as Golan frontier heats up
Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired...
Iran sanctions ending in January ‘not impossible’
Iran’s aim of having sanctions against it lifted by the end of January under a deal with major powers is “not impossible”, the head...
Bahrain slams British and U.S. interference in internal affairs
Bahrain on Monday dismissed as "unacceptable interference" U.S. and British criticism of its decision to dissolve the main Shi'ite Muslim opposition party, as senior...
Prince Mohammed due to meet on Yemen with U.N. chief
Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince is due to meet U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, the kingdom's ambassador said, after the United Nations...
Egypt’s Sisi orders Gaza border opened for Ramadan -Twitter account
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered on Thursday that the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip be opened for the whole of the...
Israel signals no opposition to Egypt's return of islands to Saudi Arabia
Israel signalled on Tuesday it did not oppose the return of two Red Sea islands in a strategic strait to Saudi Arabia by Egypt,...
