Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has exited the Majnoon oilfield and handed over all its operations to the state-run Basra Oil Co., two Iraqi oil officials close to the deal said on Wednesday. Officials from Shell and Basra Oil Co. met on Wednesday to mark the complete exit of Shell and the...

At least 200 undocumented migrants have been rescued off Libya's coast, the Libyan Navy said late Tuesday. In a statement, navy forces affiliated with Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord said the migrants were rescued 25 miles off the coast of Al-Qaraboli...

The deputy prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord has been kidnapped, a security official of the Tripoli-based government said late Tuesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's deputy,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lowered expectations concerning a potential agreement on an EU-wide asylum policy at a European leader summit this week. Speaking at a joint news conference alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Berlin, Merkel conceded that EU member...