Israel's El Al Airlines said it had suspended flights to and from Israel as did Air France KLM and budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz. Wizz s...

White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby clarified that funds from a US sanction waiver allowing Iraq to purchase en...

Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, has implemented a curfew in response to violent clashes between rival demonstrations involving Kurdish and...

The scene earlier this month in the small northern Iraqi farming village of Lheiban was a rare instance of coordination between the federal...

Most of Iraq’s paramilitary units were formed in 2014 in response to a call by the country’s most revered Shiite cleric for Iraqis to mobil...

Over the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...

Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah swapped out four ministers whose selections had angered various lawmakers for less ...

"With great sadness and sorrow, we mourn... the death of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait," said Sheikh...

The upheaval prolongs a leadership vacuum at the helm of the government amid a severe economic crisis and viral pandemic. In December, care...

The outcome of the US Fed’s rate review meeting was on the expected lines, but Wall Street sank on overnight trade while crude oil continue...

The biggest slice of the ISIS budget may come from taxing the "Caliphate's" population, a source of wealth for the group that's harder to c...

Oman is a small non-OPEC oil exporter which lacks the huge financial reserves that its Gulf neighbours can use to ride out low energy price...

Brent crude declined as much as 2.9% in London, extending this year’s decline to 46%. Opec will have to “step in” if prices continue to fal...

An Iraqi oil official says the country's oil revenues were up over 30 per cent last year to about $60 billion despite the sharp decline in ...

Oil prices bounced back above $71 a barrel Friday as OPEC weighed an emergency production cut to stem crude's stunning collapse.

Vast, oil-fuelled budget surpluses may cushion some of the Middle East’s major oil-producing countries, now that crude prices have plummete...

The United States is struggling to turn over to Iraq control of many of its reconstruction projects after spending tens of billions of doll...