An explosion took place in one of the production units of Syria’s Banias refinery near the Mediterranean coast during maintenance operations, Syria’s oil minister said on Thursday. One worker was Continue Reading
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and Russia on Thursday of failing to fulfill their part of a deal for Kurdish militia to leave a Syrian region bordering Continue Reading
The United Nations nuclear watchdog and Western powers on Thursday strongly criticized Iran for preventing one of the agency’s inspectors from leaving the country last week. U.S. Ambassador to the Continue Reading
Iraqi security forces shot dead at least six anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said, as weeks of deadly unrest showed no signs of abating. Another Continue Reading
A senior Iranian official said Tehran’s decision to increase its nuclear activity for the fourth time this year should act as a “wake-up call” for European signatories of Tehran’s 2015 atomic Continue Reading
The U.S. military near the oil fields in northern Syria has every right to defend against other forces if oil is threatened, according to Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman. Proceeds Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia is hitting up its wealthy citizens to buy stock in the Saudi Aramco IPO, Bloomberg sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The citizens Saudi Arabia Continue Reading
Just days after shocking missile attacks forced half of Saudi Arabia’s crude production capacity offline in mid-September, energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman declared that state oil company Aramco would Continue Reading
Iran has held state-sponsored attacks responsible for the damage to at least three of its supertankers since April and has sought, through the International Maritime Organization , regional cooperation to Continue Reading
Various Chinese state-held companies and funds are negotiating possibly investing up to US$10 billion in the initial public offering of Saudi oil giant Aramco, which is desperate to see large Continue Reading
