The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it was leaving OPEC after nearly 60 years, dealing a significant blow to the oil producers’ group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia. The move comes at a ...

China is throwing open its market to Africa, pairing trade with charm to win allies on the continent.   Starting on May 1st, ...

Most Iraqis had not heard the name Ali Al-Zaidi before last Monday, when his nomination was announced—surprising everyone—for the position of prime minister-designate in Iraq. His name had not ...

The final constitutional hours were accelerating inside the corridors of Iraq’s ruling Shiite Coordination Framework, while the pace of bilateral and group meetings intensified in parallel.

For more than half a century, the world has relied on one central framework to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons: the ...

Even now, Iraqis continue to share a video on social media showing a campaign event from election season last October. At the ...

Two months in, the costs of the war continue to mount — in lives, physical destruction, and countless secondary effects. It ...

In Jeddah, where leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are meeting for a consultative summit, the gathering does not appear to be a routine protocol event. Timing alone gives it ...

Bahrain’s King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, said that his country regrets the “alignment of some lawmakers with traitors instead of defending the homeland.” The statement came at the height of a ...

In the Jordanian capital, Amman, Saudis and Houthis sat face to face in the latest announced meeting between the two sides. On April 19 and 20, the office of the UN Special Envoy to Yemen held ...

Only one monthly installment remained for “Umm Hassan” to recover the gold necklace she had pawned in exchange for a cash ...

A growing debate is unfolding in Egypt over debt, with media figures calling for it to be written off in the hope that doing so could support the economy at this stage. These calls were preceded ...