Saudi Arabia executed 153 people in 2016, a slight reduction over 2015 (158) that marked a 20-year high for the Kingdom. Still, it is far fewer than regional rival Iran and global leader China.
Oil prices settled slightly lower on Friday, the year’s last trading day, but attained their biggest annual gain since 2009, after OPEC and partners agreed...
King Salman finishes his second year in office on Sunday as Saudi Arabia’s seventh monarch, according to Islamic calendar. During this time, he proved in...
Of the announced 2017 budget expenditures, the largest non-military and security items were slated for health and social development (SAR 120 billion), education and training...
Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product, adjusted for
inflation, grew 0.9 percent from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2016,
compared to 1.4 percent in the...
Elite Iraqi forces inside city have been moving house-to-house, dodging sniper fire, suicide car bombs and booby traps to retake one neighbourhood after another...
Between January and November 2016, the Bureau received 723,000 asylum application, noting that a large number of these applications were from people who entered Germany...
With the government and military still absorbed in fighting the war against the Islamic State group in nearby Mosul, the wreckage of the Assyrian Empire's...
Conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have almost wiped out sales in those countries, cutting a significant chunk from revenues, while the entire region is...
