Hopes for a resumption oil flows have been buoyed by the Iraqi parliament’s approval last week of a budget amendment.

Donald Trump is due to meet Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday. Since taking office last month the U.S. President has wasted no time getting to work, from imposing new tariffs to setting in train a ...

Interest rates were lowered by a quarter of a point. Governor Andrew Bailey said there was "heightened uncertainty".

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The earliest-known writing dates back to around 3500 - 3100 BC in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where cuneiform ... used his to sign the Declaration of Independence.

The Federal Government of Iraq aims to unify the country under its control by ending Kurdistan's independence and controlling ... up to 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from its own fields ...

There are key spots for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and his Nobel prize, for Canadian peacekeeping and for Canada’s push ...

Energy giant BP is projected to invest up to $25 billion over the life span of a project to redevelop four Kirkuk oil and gas ...

1783 – Sweden recognized the independence of the United States. 1846 – “The Oregon Spectator”, based in Oregon City, became ...

The Pentagon is rushing to provide the Trump administration with options to vastly expand the military’s footprint from Texas ...

Montenegro is a small Balkan nation that only recently gained its independence from Serbia in 2006 ... including missions in ...

Trump is playing a tough guy with the world but in the Middle East the returning president seems to make US policies even ...