Syrian government has proceeded to 50% cut in gasoline allocations for the coastal region, Damascus and northern Aleppo provinces on Wednesday.   Pro-regime media outlets media quoted a member of the executive office of the transport sector in Lattakia, Malik al-Khayer that the move...

Kosovo’s new foreign minister says she considers the opening of the country's embassy in Jerusalem to be “a done deal.” Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla was asked during an interview about the pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put on Kosovo's new government to...

Israeli election officials Wednesday handed over the results of last week's vote to President Reuven Rivlin, nudging forward the country' elusive efforts to break political deadlock, form a government and avoid an unprecedented fifth consecutive round of balloting. Rivlin is now tasked...

Protesters on Wednesday shut down the Dhi Qar oil refinery in southern Iraq amid protests over the lack of job opportunities for local residents, according to eyewitnesses. Dozens of university graduates gathered in front of the Dhi Qar oil refinery in the center of the provincial...