Tareq Aziz, who served as the voice of Saddam Hussein's government, died in Iraqi hospital Friday aged 79 after years of poor health as a convicted prisoner, a doctor said. "Tareq Aziz arrived at the Hussein Teaching Hospital at 3 pm," Dr Saadi al-Majed, the head of the health department in...

Oil group OPEC agreed to stick by its policy of unconstrained output for another six months on Friday, setting aside warnings of a second lurch lower in prices as some members such as Iran look to ramp up exports. Concluding a meeting with no apparent dissent, Saudi Arabian Oil...

An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey's mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Thursday for unity in the Muslim world in order to counter “oppression” from the West, on the anniversary of his predecessor’s death. In a speech marking 26 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the...