OPEC member Algeria will reduce its crude oil output by 12,000 barrels a day to comply with a deal agreed by other producers with the aim of balancing the global oil market, Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab said on Monday. OPEC and non-OPEC producers led by Russia last week agreed a new...

Palestinians staged a general strike in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) on Monday in protest of Israeli plans to build a new settlement in the flashpoint city.  Shops and public and private institutions shut their doors as part of the strike, according to an Anadolu Agency...

Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia are no longer required to have gender-segregated entrances, officials said, in a further easing of social restrictions in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom. Eateries have long required one entrance for single men and another for women and families,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian National Army has preventing US-backed forces from entering the border town of Azaz late on Sunday, a spokesman for the Turkish-backed group told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Major. Yousef al-Hammoud said the SNA had repelled the Syrian Democratic Forces south of...