In Sabha, gateway to Libya’s south and its largest oil field, the sounds of warfare have been echoing through low-slung buildings and wide streets day and...
LONDON: OPEC members gathering in Vienna June 2 are expected to go along with a Saudi Arabia-led policy focused on squeezing out rivals amid signs the...
BENGHAZI: Amid the clothing and jewelry shops along an upmarket street in Benghazi is another kind of emporium. The wares on display: crisp U.S. dollar notes....
Leaflets fluttered onto the rooftops and terraces of Mosul on a recent Sunday, bearing promises by Iraq’s government that its army was gearing up to...
WASHINGTON: Iraq is planning unprecedented salary cuts for senior civil servants, as a more than a year-old war against ISIS and the plunge in oil prices...
A Shiite militia that refuses even to identify its leader is emerging as one of the greatest threats to the Iraqi administration that it is meant to be...
As the U.K.’s government weighs whether to start bombing ISIS in Syria, it has been drawn into a separate global argument over what to call the group it’s...
Since the end of May, Abidjan has had a special guest: King Mohammad VI of Morocco. Though he spent just a week in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital as part of...
Wafaa Bassiouny’s six-year campaign for the right to educate children at home in Egypt has propelled her from academic pariah to mini celebrity, as the...
After 15 years shipping human cargo, Abu Samir understands the need to soothe his customers.“I won’t take you on rough waters,” he told a would-be migrant one...
When ISIS seized Mosul in June, the militant group boasted that it provided the cheapest fuel in the region as it tried to win over Iraqis to its cause. Since...
RABAT: Beyond the walls of a palace outside Casablanca owned by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, Moroccans are buying housing plots that one of the Middle East’s...
The sheer number of bodies he’s had to deal with at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital morgue has numbed Musa Hassan to the anguish.“I’ve taken hundreds of bodies...
Omer Benjoya took a job this summer selling drinks, snacks and postcards on a hill that offers one of the most breathtaking panoramic views of Jerusalem. Now...
Ali Gumma finally saved enough money to buy a plot of land near Tripoli and was planning to build a family home when he hit a brick wall: He couldn’t...
Egypt’s central bank unexpectedly kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Friday after raising it in March, as pressure on policymakers eased...