NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped on Wednesday from four-week highs after a surprising increase in U.S. crude inventories, even as top exporter Saudi Arabia reiterated its determination to end a three-year supply glut. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that crude...

Former Palestinian security head  Mohammed Dahlan  is playing a lead role in Syrian negotiations, according to Arab-language media. The former Fatah official has reportedly offered Syrian opposition groups two options for the future of the country, both of which would see President...

 Extremists from Daesh (ISIS) and fighters from Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary coalition were locked in fierce clashes near Mosul Tuesday, with nearly 30 reported dead, the coalition said. Mosul, Iraq's second city, was retaken from Daesh in July after a massive months-long...

Iraqi pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive against Kurdish troops on Tuesday near the Turkish frontier, pushing towards a strategic border crossing and oil export pipeline hub that Baghdad says must come under its control. The Iraqi government has transformed the balance...