Oil prices fell on Friday as investors awaited the outcome of Iranian nuclear talks which could lead to a big increase in Iranian crude exports at a time when the market is already over-supplied. Dealers also kept an eye on negotiations to try to avert a Greek debt default and avoid Greece's...

The United Nations Security Council and U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Thursday pushed for more aid and commercial access to Yemen, where a near total blockade by Saudi Arabia has slowed shipments to the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country to a trickle. O'Brien said 80 percent of Yemen's 25...

 Iranian state media say thousands of people have attended the funerals for eight Iranian volunteers killed in fighting against ISIS extremists in Syria, AP reported. Thursday's report by the official IRNA news agency says three of the volunteers were buried in the capital, Tehran, and the...

 By Menekse Toyay  The military agreement signed by Turkey and Qatar in December, whose details became public this month, has symbolic and material implications for security in the Gulf region. Some experts say the impetus behind the agreement were the conflicts in Iraq, Syria,...