foreign trade deficit rose to 4.95 billion in April with a 16.7 percent year-on-year increase, official data showed on May 31. While the country’s imports surged 9.9 percent year-on-year to $17.7 billion, exports rose …
By Sylvia Westall and Tom Finn | DUBAI/DOHA Just 10 days after President Donald Trump called on Muslim countries to stand united against Iran, a public feud between Qatar and some of its Gulf …
Total US National Security Spending, 2017-2018 (All figures are $ billions; then-Year $) (Sources: Table 25-1 from Analytical Perspectives and Table 26-1 Budget by Agency and Account in 2018 OMB Budget) National Security Program …
Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven (L-R), with his counterparts Lars Lokke Rasmussen of Denmark, Erna Solberg of Norway, Juha Sipila of Finland and Bjarni Benediktsson of Iceland hold a soccer ball during their meeting …
A United Arab Emirates government minister on Sunday warned that an alliance of Gulf Arab states was facing a major crisis and he said there was an urgent need to rebuild trust. Anwar Gargash, …
Haftar’s LNA had intensified an offensive to oust Ansar al-Sharia from Benghazi [File: Reuters] Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia armed group announced its own dissolution on Saturday, saying it has been “weakened” by fighting in Benghazi. …
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a fierce attack against regional rival Saudi Arabia, saying it was being pumped “like a milking cow” by “infidel” Americans. “These people (the Saudis) appear to believe …
by Mona Eltahawy CAIRO — Just over a week after Dina Ali Lasloom, a 24-year-old Saudi Arabian, was dragged onto a plane from Manila to Riyadh with her mouth taped shut and her arms …
By Tamer El-Ghobashy Updated May 27, 2017 10:31 a.m. ET 7 COMMENTS Islamic State claimed Saturday a team of its gunmen carried out the attack on a bus full of Coptic Christian pilgrims in …
Christopher A. Preble May 24, 2017 As grieving parents and loved ones mourn the loss of innocent lives in Manchester, England, and pray for the recovery of those grievously wounded, the rest of the …