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 (...)
BEIRUT: Blom Bank, one of the top two banks in Lebanon, expected its 2010 results to be a "major improvement" as the country's economy improves and said it was looking to expand in the Middle East.
The strong growth in the Lebanese economy and in (...)
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 (...)
SWEIMEH: Egyptian unemployment is set to rise from around 9 percent now because the most populous Arab country is not sustaining high enough economic growth to support its population, the trade minister said on Saturday.
Egypt needed to achieve (...)
SWEIMEH: Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Friday he expected inflation in Egypt to fall to single digit levels in the summer.
Inflation fell to 11.7 percent in the year to April from 12.1 percent in March, having exceeded 20 percent (...)
Reuters NABATIYEH, Lebanon: There is little but contempt for Arab rulers among Lebanese Shiites whose homes were destroyed in the war between Hezbollah and Israel, but support for Iran and Syria is stronger than ever. Washington had hoped that (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s banned Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood said on Sunday comments by the prime minister about preventing its members from standing in future elections proved the government was not committed to reform. The group, which won a fifth (...)