Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi named a new energy minister on Monday as part of a clutch of cabinet appointments, the state news agency SABA...

Energy importers like India and South Africa will benefit; oil producers such as Russia and Saudi Arabia will hurt. Central banks under pressure to raise...

China and Russia, writes John Chipman, director general of IISS, are looking to test the tolerance of other states for varying forms of aggression, but...

Aside from its governance challenges, Iraq remains highly susceptible to conflict relapse. Since 2003, Iraq has suffered countless sectarian conflicts and one recognized genocide....

Lending by banks in the U.A.E., the second-biggest Arab economy after Saudi Arabia, has risen 4.2 percent in the 10 months through October as the...

The Islamic finance industry grew 11 percent year-on-year in 2017 and is set to sustain double-digit growth buoyed by capital market products and the adoption...

Italian police say they have detained five Egyptians accused of smuggling a boatload of 264 migrants from Libya to Sicily.The overloaded fishing boat pulled into...

US billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundation said it has decided to cease operations in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the philanthropist...

Egypt sees increasing interest from U.S. energy companies in developing its offshore oil and natural gas resources and expects them to participate in two bidding...

For counterterrorism officials, one of the most difficult counterterrorism challenges is identifying the next global struggle that, like the Syrian civil war, will energize the...

The UAE Cabinet approved long-term visa system for investors, entrepreneurs, specialized talents and researchers in the fields of science, knowledge and outstanding students to facilitate...

China’s refusal to immediately bail Pakistan out has forced Mr. Khan to turn to the IMF for help. The IMF, backed by the United States,...

Although little is known about the Ubaid civilisation, it is believed that they were the first agricultural settlers in the region, which would later be...

Russia has carried out air strikes against Syrian rebels it accuses of launching a chemical attack on the government-held city of Aleppo....

The strike hit a suspected al Qaeda site in al-Bayda province, killing two people believed to be local leaders of the group along with four...

A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of...

A British academic who was jailed for spying in the United Arab Emirates has been freed after a pardon. Matthew Hedges, 31, denied spying and said...