- Beirut, Lebanon— Thirteen people, mostly fighters, have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes between rival factions competing for power...
According to reports, fighting between two pro-Turkish Syrian rebel groups began in the town of Al-Bab in northern Aleppo province before spreading to other areas
Syria's war has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes
- The 13-nation OPEC cartel and its 10 allies headed by Moscow angered the White House last week with its decision...
Saudi Arabia has defended the planned production cuts, saying the priority of OPEC+ was "to maintain a sustainable oil market"
Partnership between US and Saudi Arabia was sealed after World War II, providing the kingdom with military protection in exchange for American access to oil
- The Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline network was started in the 1960s and now covers 5,500 kilometres, pumping oil from the Urals...
The leak was detected late on Tuesday near the village of Zurawice about 180 kilometres (112 miles) to the west of Warsaw in central Poland
PERN spokeswoman Katarzyna Krasinska was quoted by PAP news agency as saying that the pipeline was mainly supplying two refineries in Schwedt and Spergau in Germany
- Violence has surged in recent months in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, amid near daily West Bank raids and an uptick in...
The shooting was claimed by "The Lions' Den", a loose coalition of Palestinian fighters which has emerged in recent months
Defence Minister Benny Gantz vowed to "get our hands on the terrorist and those who helped him", writing on Twitter
- Nearly 200 migrants attempting to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea were intercepted by Tunisian coastguards over the weekend. In...
More than 22,500 migrants have been intercepted off the Tunisian coast since the start of the year, around half of them from sub-Saharan Africa
According to EU border agency Frontex, between January and July more than 42,500 migrants used the central Mediterranean route -- the world's most deadly
- UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called for peace during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Sheikh Mohamed "emphasised the UAE's policy of supporting peace and stability and called for the continuation of serious consultations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis"
The two leaders also discussed various aspects of UAE-Russia relations.
- The UN experts said publishing the column was a matter of freedom of expression, and concluded that he had been...
Raissouni was jailed on appeal for five years in February, one of several journalists critical of Morocco's government to have been imprisoned for sex crimes
He was arrested two days after publishing an editorial criticizing the authorities for taking over-zealous measures during the coronavirus pandemic
- Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday,...
Energy sector is a major source of the carbon emissions that drive climate change, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.
WMO said that increasingly extreme weather events, droughts, floods and sea-level rise - all linked to climate change - were already making energy supply less reliable.
- Lebanon's search for gas riches in the hydrocarbon-rich eastern Mediterranean had stalled since 2020 over competing claims with Israel over...
TotalEnergies is part of a consortium of energy giants awarded a license to explore for gas in two of Lebanon's 10 blocks, numbers 4 and 9.
One well drilled in Block 4 in 2020 by TotalEnergies, Eni and Novatek showed only traces but no commercially viable gas deposits.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized US climate protection plans that would shield domestic companies from foreign competition, saying they could...
European Union officials have in recent weeks spoken out against planned US tax credits for the domestic electric vehicle market.
South Korea has also voiced its displeasure, calling the new rules favoring American e-cars a "betrayal".





















