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The IMFSaid Last Month That Growth in the Non-Oil Sector Was Expected to Accelerate as the Kingdom Moved Ahead With Economic Reforms. (Shutterstock)

September 18th, 2018 - 07:18 GMT

IMF Confident Saudi Can Meet 1.9 Percent GDP Forecast

Saudi Arabia’s economy can achieve an International Monetary Fund forecast of 1.9 percent gross domestic product growth this year, the central bank governor said on Sunday.

Will the U.S. train elite Iraqi forces in Jordan? (AFP/File)

January 10th, 2014 - 06:42 GMT

Officials: U.S. considering training Iraqi troops to fight Al Qaeda

Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh arrives at Kasbah Palace in Tunis to submit his resignation to Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on January 9, 2014. [AFP]

January 10th, 2014 - 04:00 GMT

Tunisia Islamist PM steps down amid mounting unrest

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the negotiations reveal U.S. “enmity.” [AFP]

January 9th, 2014 - 08:21 GMT

Iran's Khamenei says nuclear talks show U.S. enmity

Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi block a street during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Nasr City, Cairo on January 8, 2014. 63 Brotherhood supporters were sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday in a Cairo court. (AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 02:04 GMT

Egypt court jails 63 Muslim Brotherhood supporters

At least 700 people have been killed in Aleppo since Dec. 15 under government airstrikes (Medo Halab/AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 01:19 GMT

First joint Syrian opposition meeting held in Spain, car bomb kills at least 18 in Hama

Tunisia has been enveloped in political turmoil since July (File Archive/AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 12:23 GMT

Tunisia appoints High Electoral Commission, PM to resign Thursday

Iraqi soldiers monitor a checkpoint east of Baghdad on January 6, 2014. On Thursday, 13 Iraqi army recruits were killed by a suicide bomber in the capital city. (AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 10:30 GMT

Suicide bomber kills 13 army recruits in Baghdad

Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, pictured here with EU representative Catherine Ashton in November 2013, will meet with major world powers in Geneva Thursday to discuss how to implement the historic nuclear deal from late last year (File Archive/AFP)

January 9th, 2014 - 06:53 GMT

Iran FM "optimistic" ahead of nuclear talks scheduled to resume Thursday

Assuming the National Congress immediately appoint a replacement, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan may resign imminently. (AFP/File)

January 8th, 2014 - 04:05 GMT

Libyan PM "ready to resign", cabinet reshuffle imminent

Iraqi civilians flee Fallujah ahead of the government forces' planned attack (Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP)

January 8th, 2014 - 07:28 GMT

Iraq puts Fallujah strike on hold

Saudi Arabia has already deported 60,000 migrant workers as part of its Saudization movement (Courtesy of Zawya)

January 7th, 2014 - 10:48 GMT

For the "deserving"? Saudi Arabia introduces new welfare program for select citizens

Iranian foreign spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said last week that Tehran was worried over the escalating violence in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, since the ousting of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July. (AFP/File)

January 7th, 2014 - 07:18 GMT

Egypt summons Iranian official over protest comments