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Fouad Masoum, Iraq’s newly elected president, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, July 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)
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This file photo shows oil tanks at the Saudi Aramco headquarters during a media tour at Damam city, Saudi Arabia, on November 11, 2007. (Reuters/Ali Jareki/Files)
Opinion: Will We Survive the Oil Crisis?
Saudi Arabia, like all other oil exporting countries, has lost 50 percent of its national revenues since the price of oil fell sharply, leveling out at around 60 US dollars per barrel. However, this shocking state of affairs is transitory. The Saudi government is...Caption:
Dubai’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Dubai Crown Prince: We aim to be at the global forefront by 2021
Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat—In 2007, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and constitutional monarch of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, launched an ambitious eight-year plan, the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015, aiming to make Dubai a smart,...Caption:
US General John Campbell (C), commander of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), folds the flag of the ISAF during the change of mission ceremony in Kabul, December 28, 2014. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)
US, NATO mark end of mission to Afghanistan
Kabul, AP—The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that...Caption:
Hadi Bahra, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, the country’s main political opposition group, speaks during a press conference following his meeting with the Arab League’s Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby at the league’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)