A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at the Lukoil company owned Imilorskoye oil field outside the West Siberian city of Kogalym, Russia, in this January 25, 2016 Continue Reading
Dubai’s year-round sunshine and near-zero taxes have been easy sells for foreign investors and expatriate workers. Oil’s plummet below $30 a barrel might change that for the glitzy emirate and Continue Reading
For months now the United States has insisted there can be no military solution to the Syrian civil war, only a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad and the fractured, Continue Reading
Allies of the United States sharply criticized the Obama administration’s Syria policy on Wednesday, when the outgoing foreign minister of France called it “ambiguous” and the president of Turkey said Continue Reading
Russia has proposed a March 1 ceasefire in Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, but Washington believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian government three weeks to try to crush Continue Reading
Photo Hassan Khomeini, right, the grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, registering in Tehran in December to take part in the election for the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that Continue Reading
Iran aims to advance employment by bringing younger workers into a modernizing petrochemical sector, members of the Iranian parliament said. A profile from the World Bank described the unemployment rate Continue Reading
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi signaled an overhaul of his cabinet, days after Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric expressed disapproval at the slow place of change in the country. Lawmakers and Continue Reading
An uncertain price trajectory for 2016 and a sharp decline in rig activity in North America means oil production is under pressure, OPEC said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Continue Reading
Actors and other stakeholders in the Nigerian movie industry, a.k.a Nollywood, said on Tuesday that the industry is a potential alternative to the ailing oil sector. In separate interviews with Continue Reading
