Iraq’s south witnesses new protests against corruption, power cuts
Less than a month after a surge of unrest in Iraq over poor public services, particularly power cuts, and rampant corruption, residents in southern areas of the Arab country have ...
Hundreds of pregnant women risk death in Yemen’s Hodeida: UN
Hundreds of pregnant women in the Yemeni city of Hodeida risk dying as the escalating conflict puts medical care out of reach in a country with one of the world’s ...
Saudi Oil Output Dips Despite Promises to Pump More
Saudi Arabia, which recently pledged oil-supply increases to tame rallying crude prices, cut production last month, according to OPEC delegates familiar with the matter. The biggest member of the Organization ...
Turkey sanctions US officials in tit-for-tat row over pastor
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey would impose sanctions on two US officials in retaliation for a similar move by Washington in a row over the detention of ...
Why Syria’s Kurds are inclined to negotiate with Damascus
As the Syrian regime continues to make advances in the country's south and expand the area it controls, government forces have deployed soldiers along the border with Jordan near Daraa ...
Lebanon Economic Situation Delicate
World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Ferid Belhaj said Monday that Lebanon’s economic situation was “delicate”, but dismissed the notion that there was reason to ...
Russian Steelmaker Stops Deliveries to Iran
MMK, one of Russia’s largest steel producers, has stopped deliveries to Iran against the backdrop of new sanctions Washington has promised to impose on Tehran. The announcement was made by ...
Iran Invites Azerbaijan to Join New Railroad
Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi has invited Azerbaijan to join a new railroad that links the border town of Parsabad in Iran’s Ardabil Province to Mugan ...
Trump says ready to meet Iranian leaders without preconditions
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he’s willing to meet with Iranian leaders without preconditions amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. “It’s good for the country, good for ...
Iraq : Saudi Arabia to Supply Cheap Power
Saudi Arabia has agreed to build a solar power plant and sell the electricity to Iraq at a steep discount compared to supplies the war-torn country previously bought from the ...







