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

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 ...

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 ...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday its withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the OPEC+ alliance, in a move carrying heavy implications for ...

Iran put a new proposal on the table. Washington canceled the trip. Tehran’s new three-stage proposal puts Hormuz governance ...

In a single moment, the “Ras Laffan” facility in Qatar— the largest artery for exporting liquefied natural gas in the world — was transformed from an energy hub into the epicenter of a global ...

The ruling Shiite coalition in Iraq, the “Coordination Framework,” announced the nomination of businessman Ali al-Zaydi for the position of prime minister, thereby ending months of debate and ...

At the beginning of this April, after the Israeli Knesset passed a law allowing the execution of Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis, angry protests broke out in the streets of Damascus.

Through a complex network of land routes operated by Iraqi militias loyal to Iran—and under the supervision of officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—extensive smuggling operations ...

The renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz, amid the war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, has revived longstanding questions in the Gulf about alternative ...

As the world chokes under the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz, attention is turning to Libya as a potential savior of global energy security. In principle, Libya’s geographic position ...

In preparation for confronting Kurdish parties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has, for more than two months, been working to increase the number of its loyal “Muslim Peshmerga” ...