French oil major Total said Friday the probability of winning an exemption from US sanctions against Iran to continue a major gas field project was very faint. The energy giant had already warned that, unless Washington granted it a waiver, it would pull out of the South Pars 11 project...

 President Donald Trump is considering giving U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman more authority over the U.S. outpost that handles Palestinian affairs, five U.S. officials said, a shift that could further dampen Palestinian hopes for an independent state. Any move to downgrade the...

The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal opens the way to raising pressure on Tehran to stop its military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and leave the country, a Syrian opposition leader said on Thursday. Nasr Hariri of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) spoke...

Egypt's foreign debts reached around $82.9 billion, for the period ending December 2017, rising by 4.9 percent compared to six months earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt revealed in a report on Wednesday. The CBE, however, maintains that the foreign debt to gross domestic product ratio...