Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), viewed by Washington as the extremist network’s most risky branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize the southern port city of Mukalla, capital of the vast desert Hadramawt province.
He said he had given orders to hunt down the assailants, who have not been identified. Al-Bakry, who oversees the Aden governorate, was in the building at the time, meeting with high-profile military and security officials.
Iran can boost output by 500,000 barrels a day within one week after sanctions are lifted, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said earlier this month. In a June survey, the average year-end forecast of participants was that West Texas Intermediate crude would be at .80 per barrel.
The US can not persuade countries like India and China to join the Iranian sanctions regime again, Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said as he warned the Congress against rejecting the nuclear deal with Iran.
The nation may even consider selling debt in the global markets, provided oil prices stabilise and government spending continues, John Sfakianakis, the Riyadh-based Middle East director at asset manager Ashmore Group, says. The stock had come under pressure after state media said...
Kerry also warned that the U.S. could lose its military standing in the world should Congress reject the deal and insist its allies concede to U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, came to Congress on Wednesday to try to reassure senators but said his agency could not show them the details of the documents. Second, allowing Iran to deal in conventional arms and further enhance its ballistic missile capabilities is...
A suicide bomber is believed to have caused the blast in the mosque inside an emergency force headquarters building in the kingdom’s Asir region, the SPA reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman.
The White House says lawmakers who want to know about agreements between Iran and worldwide nuclear inspectors will get a chance to learn about them in classified briefings.
Only a day after former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani said in an interview with an Arab daily last week that the reopening of the US embassy in Tehran is a possibility, the supreme leader ayatollah Khamenei said that the recent nuclear deal between Iran and world powers...
Crude slid into a bear market last month, joining a broader slide in raw materials amid expanding supplies and signs of slower growth in China. In fact, the prospect of new oil from Iran and increasing output from Iraq and Saudi Arabia has also helped push prices lower.
Fabius’ trip followed that of EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini the day before, as the bloc and Iran also pursue closer relations after the nuclear deal.