Analysis: Libya’s elected parliament has rejected the peace plan of the UN Libya envoy, who recently warned the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state.
Analysis: Citing the chaos in Syria, an Israeli cabinet minister has called for Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan to be recognised by the international community.
A year after the Islamic State group launched a brutally effective offensive, Iraq is struggling to survive as a unified nation, gripped by seemingly endless violence and humanitarian tragedy.
Reeling from reverses it has suffered in northern and central Syria, and hard pressed by the Islamic State group, the regime is being reinforced by its Iranian and Iraqi allies.
OPEC has decided to maintain output at current levels, despite low oil price on world markets, ministers from the oil cartel meeting in Vienna said on Friday.
