The workers were seized from the town of Silopi by suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and Libya pushed up prices, although ample supply limited the rebound from last week’s 14-month low.
Hossein Amir Abdollahian’s trip is the first high-profile visit to the Kingdom since the election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in 2013.
Peter Theo Curtis, an American writer, was missing since 2012.
In recent weeks Libya has seen the worst fighting since the NATO-backed campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The bombing of Al Zafer Tower in Gaza City, which housed 44 families, was the first time in the Gaza war that Israel had brought down so tall a structure.
The Capital Market Authority proposed limiting total foreign ownership of the market’s value to 10 per cent.
Political leaders in Britain, France and Germany have so far ruled out joining military action in Iraq.
The depth of six miles was the same as that of a 6.3-magnitude quake which hit the same area on Aug. 18.
The country we all know as Iraq may never be the same again and that poses problematic questions for the stakeholders in its economy.
Egyptian-mediated talks to end weeks of deadly fighting between Israel, Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza collapsed on Tuesday when violence broke out after ten days of relative calm.
Marriott saw occupancy rise 4.4 per cent and RevPar increase by 3.9 per cent in the Middle East and Africa region during Q2.
The Jordanian drugmaker cited shipment issues in some north African markets.
Palestinian health officials said the strikes killed 10 people including two women and four children.
James Foley, 40, was kidnapped by armed men on Nov. 22, 2012, in northern Syria while on his way to the Turkish border.
Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda were “enemy number one of Islam”.
U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq have helped Kurdish fighters take back some territory captured by Islamic State militants.
The US Federal Aviation Administration said the move was taken after “updated assessment of risk” and a lack of airlines wishing to fly in the airspace.
State news agency IRNA said the quake was magnitude 6.1 while the US Geological Survey put it at 6.3.
The Kingdom’s benchmark rose for the 13th time in 15 sessions on Sunday to reach a new six-year peak.
A Libyan TV channel said planes targeted positions in Tripoli where militias have been fighting for control for over one month.
Yukiya Amano’s trip comes ahead of an August 25 deadline for Iran to provide information to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The radical Islamist movement that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria is a growing “monster”, said Hezbollah’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah.
The Islamic State is well-resourced, with young volunteers, cash to buy weapons and pay wages, plus an arsenal of weapons it captured from the Iraqi army in June.
Health ministers from the six Gulf states have chalked out a common strategy to defend the region from the deadly virus.
Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Kingdom Tower, estimated to rise over a 1000 metres in height when ready, tops the list.
A halt in more than a month of fighting, in which 1,945 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed, had been set to expire at midnight on Wednesday.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for complicity in the deaths of demonstrators, but an appeals court subsequently ordered a retrial.
They were killed when unexploded munitions blew up in the town of Beit Lahiya.
Oman’s foreign minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah said that the recent dialogue between Qatar’s emir and Saudi’s King Abdullah has been effective in easing the rift.