Iran has had to reduce oil production projects because of a lack of funds and a drop in income from oil exports, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Tuesday, according to the official IRNA news agency. “All attacks are against us and the income from oil exports has been reduced. We...

(Eqtsad)- A Syrian refugee woman in Sweden has defied the stereotypes of Arab women to work as a heavy truck driver and overcoming all restrictions that still prevent many women in the Arab world from achieving their dreams. Diaa Al-Hajji, originally from Aleppo’s northern...

Syrian businessman Alaa Samani and his wife Hanaa Ismail join bumper to bumper traffic heading into an Aleppo district recently retaken by the regime to check on their chocolate factory. "Everything was destroyed," says Samani, driving into the city that was once Syria's main economic hub....

Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: even if Iraq's young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched politicians, they have scored by shattering decades-old taboos. Since October, the country of 40 million has been rocked by a historically large...