Egypt releases Irish-Egyptian after 4 years in detention
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt released early on Friday an Irish-Egyptian man detained for over four years on charges related to a 2013 Muslim Brotherhood...
Iraqi and Kurdish forces exchange fire over shared border
Iraqi forces shelled Kurdish military positions north and south of Altun Kupri, a town of about 9,000 people just outside the country's autonomous Kurdish...
Drone video shows devastation in Raqqa, Syria
RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Drone footage from the northern Syrian city of Raqqa shows the extent of devastation caused by weeks of fighting between...
Controversial Israel, Germany submarine deal advances after graft probe delay
Jerusalem, Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Germany has resumed negotiations towards selling Israel three submarines after a three-month pause in talks following concern in Berlin over...
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...
Iraq's Qayyara oil fields won't return to production before Mosul retaken
Iraq doesn't expect to resume production from the northern Qayyara oil region before the capture of nearby Mosul from Islamic State (ISIS), an oil...
'Teammates' Qatar and Turkey assert post-coup ties
With his fate still uncertain just hours after the launch of the July 15 coup, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received his first call...
Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday, the health...
Kerry calls for unity government in Yemen to end war
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday he had agreed in talks with Gulf Arab states and the United Nations in Saudi...
Kerry tackles Yemen and Syrian conflicts in Saudi Arabia talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, into the early hours of Thursday...
