Oil prices edged up on Friday, supported by a fall in Saudi exports to the United States, but overall markets remained under pressure on the back of a world market awash with fuel. Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $50.69 per barrel at 0756 GMT, up 13 cents or 0.3 percent, from...

Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to boycott the upcoming provincial elections, urging instead followers to join a "reform revolution." Al-Sadr spoke to thousands at an anti-government protest Friday in Baghdad, calling for continued peaceful rallies. He...

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager Thursday in the occupied West Bank and seriously wounded three other Palestinians, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement. It did not give the circumstances, but said the shooting happened near the Jelazoun Palestinian refugee...

Dozens of residents were buried in collapsed buildings in the Iraqi city of Mosul after an airstrike against ISIS triggered a massive explosion last week and rescuers are still recovering bodies, civil defense agency officials and locals said on Thursday. The exact cause of the collapses was...