Flooding from tropical storm Harvey caused ongoing large-scale U.S. refinery outages on Tuesday, while crude prices rose on the back of supply disruptions in Colombia and Libya. Refinery shutdowns from the storm helped push U.S. gasoline prices to $1.7799 per gallon on Monday, the most...

Iraqi forces said they faced tough resistance Monday from Daesh (ISIS) fighters driven out of the city of Tal Afar to a small town where they had "nothing to lose" by fighting to the end. An advance by the Iraqi army and Shi'ite paramilitary groups into al-'Ayadiya was being slowed by...

Hamas and Iran have patched up relations, the Palestinian militant group’s new leader in Gaza said on Monday, and Tehran is again its biggest backer after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. “Relations with Iran are excellent and Iran is the largest supporter of the Izz el-Deen...

The Syrian army and Hezbollah on Monday prepared to escort Islamic State fighters to eastern Syria from their enclave on the border with Lebanon under an agreement following a week-long offensive against the jihadist group. It will end any Sunni militant presence on the border, an important...