- The suspension of operations at Brega terminal, which has an export capacity of 60,000 barrels per day, follows a force...
Force majeure, a legal move, allows parties to free themselves from contractual obligations when factors such as fighting make meeting them impossible.
Oil installations have often been attacked or blockaded by armed groups who hold sway in Libya.
- Envisioned as a lush fortress against worsening desertification and sand storms, the "green belt" of Iraq's Karbala stands as a...
Sixteen years after its inception, only a fraction of the 76-kilometre (47-mile) crescent-shaped strip of greenery has materialized.
Eucalyptus, olive groves and date palms first took root in 2006 as part of a plan for tens of thousands of trees to form a green protective shield around Karbala.
- Algeria, which backs the Polisario independence movement in the former Spanish colony, had in March recalled its envoy to Madrid.
Algeria, which backs the Polisario independence movement in the former Spanish colony, had in March recalled its envoy to Madrid
The Polisario waged a long armed struggle in Western Sahara for independence from Morocco before reaching a ceasefire in 1991
- King Abdullah stressed that maintaining calm requires Israel to respect the historical and legal status quo in Al Aqsa Mosque.
It includes ceasing all illegal and provocative measures that violate it and could push towards further escalation
King Abdullah directed Jordan to continue its regional and international efforts and communications to stop Israeli escalation
- United Nations human rights experts have asked the Australian government to repatriate 46 of its citizens from detention camps in Syria,...
Ten UN special rapporteurs said bringing this group -- which includes 30 children, some as young as two years old -- home to Australia was "the only legal and humane response".
The UN experts described the situation in the Al-Hol and Roj camps as "uncertain and sordid" for Australian citizens.
- Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday that the armed forces would not let arch-foe Israel rest if it took...
"You must know that if you try to take any action against the Iranian nation... our armed forces will not leave you in peace," Raisi said, during a military parade
Last month, Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the military's ideological arm, said it fired a dozen ballistic missiles at a "strategic" site in Arbil
- Iran on Monday said an agreement with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal was still not in sight,...
Iran has been engaged in efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly
Khatibzadeh on Monday blamed Washington for delays to restore the nuclear deal





















