by Shuja Al-Baqmi | Jun 8, 2017 | Business
Riyadh – Qatar’s stock market has witnessed its biggest drop in 18 months, as the crisis between the country and neighboring nations escalated. The decision of several countries to cut diplomatic relations with Doha had its direct impact on the Qatar Stock Exchange...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 6, 2017 | Middle East
Mosul – Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge ISIS, commanders said on Friday. Footage taken by a drone operated by the Iraqi 9th Armored Division over the...
by Musaid Al-Zayani | Apr 19, 2017 | Business
Dubai- UAE Minister of Energy Suhail al-Mazrouei said that he sees a healthy level of demand for crude oil in the future from emerging economies in Africa and Asia and that the UAE would remain commercially-minded in its strategic oil investments. Mazrouei’s comments...
by Asharq Al-Awsat, Agencies | Dec 6, 2016 | Middle East
London, Washington, and Baghdad – U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that despite being difficult, recapturing Mosul from ISIS is possible before the next U.S. Administration. About 100,000 Iraqi government troops, Kurdish security forces and Shiite fighters...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 24, 2016 | World
Washington-The United States on Tuesday named a French veteran of the Foreign Legion as a suspect in the planning of bloody attacks in Paris and Brussels. The U.S. sanctioned Abdelilah Himich, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Faransi, a Moroccan-born French national...
