The United States evacuated its embassy in Libya on Saturday, driving diplomats across the border into Tunisia under heavy military escort...
Islamist militants attacked an army base in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday, triggering fierce clashes involving helicopters and...
A major speech by Iran's Supreme Leader has limited the ability of the Iranian delegation at high-level nuclear talks to...
Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq on Sunday after heavy fighting, solidifying their grip on the...
Iraq's most senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric urged followers to take up arms against a full-blown Sunni militant insurgency to...
Iraqi Kurdish forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, after government troops abandoned their posts in...
Heavily armed gunmen stormed Libya's parliament on Sunday demanding its suspension and claiming loyalty to a renegade army general who...
Libya threatened on Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tried to ship oil from a rebel-controlled port...
Al-Qaeda-linked militants held control of much of the Iraqi city of Fallujah and other nearby towns, fighting off efforts by...
Asian oil refiners face weak margins for turning crude into fuel over the next five years and may be forced to...
The U.S. occupation of Iraq, sold as a way to end Saddam Hussein's brutal dictatorship, end the threat of weapons of mass destruction...
Iran has warned its Gulf neighbours to not step in to make up for any shortfall in its oil exports under new...
A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite...
The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has granted a loan of US$22.5 million to two projects of upgrading hospitals...
Libyan tanks fired on rebel positions around the oil port of Ras Lanuf and warplanes hit another oil hub further east...