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Looks like yesterday's meeting was just another failed attempt to break the deadlock. The "agreement" the political leaders ...

And it is on in Saudi Arabia! Fourteen people, including 11 policemen, were hurt when riots erupted in a Shiite-majority village in easter...

An overly wishful, almost out of touch assessment of bill stuck since 2007: “We are studying two drafts, one from within the committee and a...

The deal is finally signed ...it's unclear yet though whether it includes the same lame weapons package announced in the original notifi...

Congrats to the women of Saudi Arabian who now have the right to vote and run for public office ...A huge step forward.

You're not gonna believe what this radio station in Somalia did! The "Al-Andalus" radio station offered weapons (and cash) as ...

This is a pretty interesting and welcome about-face .

This escalation will most certainly reflect negatively on the border ares of Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Actually, with a joint Ankara-Teh...

Egypt's Political Parties Affairs Committee has made a brave decision , barring the extremist Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya from registering as ...

Production in August hit 2.81 million barrels per day. Going neck and neck with Kuwait , who has also been frantically ramping up output th...

Someone in the neighborhood is losing revenue pretty fast! Watcha gonna do Bashar?

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has effectively torpedoed what was left of the power-sharing agreement that led to the formation of his cabin...

The Ministry of Oil will be trying to squeeze even more revenue out of future development contracts by closing one of the "loopholes...

Another Iranian pipe dream, literally.

The KRG are saying exports were halted because of "technical difficulties." This could in theory be true, but it's highly un...

I'm quite sure that when General Odierno said: "I'm not saying 3-5,000 is the right number," but "there comes a time....

So Moqtada Sadr, trying to make himself look reasonable, issued a statement Saturday night in which he claims that: "Out of keenness ...

Something must have been lost in translation, because this couldn't be coming from Ahmadinejad.

Never heard of recent active exploration in this area, which roughly corresponds with the southern edge of "block 2", one of the ...