COOLIE CAMP: When they see the plight of their Syrian kinsmen across the border, the Sunni tribesmen of western Iraq understand their rage.
But with their own experience of civil war still fresh, they want to stop arms from feeding the conflict (...)
BEIRUT: Syrian security forces shot dead at least 10 demonstrators in Hama on Friday, Syrian rights group Sawasieh said, as protesters defied a widespread military crackdown to demand President Bashar Al-Assad leave office.
Three residents said (...)
BEIRUT: Syrian security forces shot dead at least 34 demonstrators in Hama on Friday, an activist said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in their crackdown on an 11-week revolt against President Bashar Al-Assad's rule.
In a pattern seen every (...)
CAIRO/BEIRUTL EFG-Hermes will buy a 65 percent stake in Lebanon's privately owned Credit Libanais for $542 million as the leading Egyptian investment bank sets out to diversify its business.
EFG-Hermes said on Tuesday it would use its cash (...)
BEIRUT: Israeli plans to drill for gas in the Mediterranean sea have alarmed Lebanon, which says it also has major gas reserves but may lose out because it lags behind in exploration and the hostile neighbors have no sea border.
Lebanon has said (...)
BEIRUT: Egypt's economic growth for the calendar year of 2010 will reach 6 percent, the country's trade and industry minister said on Thursday.
Rachid Mohamed Rachid also said the economy of the largest Arab country would grow to 5.4 percent (...)
BEIRUT: South Africa's MTN has offered to pay $7.8 billion for Orascom Telecom's lucrative Algerian unit Djezzy, Orascom's chairman said on Wednesday, putting a price to a deal blocked by Algeria.
The Egyptian mobile firm said last week it would (...)
BEIRUT: Most Arab countries are expected to record an average 3.6 percent economic growth this year as the price of crude oil rebounds from 2009, a United Nations economic report said on Wednesday.
The global credit crunch brought a boom in Gulf (...)