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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.

Palestinian journalist is being held in administrative detention, an Israeli policy highly criticized by the UN, EU and other human rights groups. (AFP/File)

February 20th, 2016 - 11:07 GMT

Hunger-striker’s wife calls for action to save husband’s life in harrowing video

Family members and relatives mourn outside a morgue in Ankara on February 18, 2016, a day after a car bombing targeted military vehicles, killing 28. (AFP/Adem Altan)

February 18th, 2016 - 10:30 GMT

Explosion in Diyarbakir targets another Turkish military vehicle

Smokes rises above buildings following an explosion after an attack targeted a convoy of military service vehicles in Ankara on February 17, 2016. (AFP/Stringer)

February 18th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Turkish airstrikes target PKK in northern Iraq following Ankara bombing

A representative image of a missile being launched in Israel. (AFP/File)

February 18th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Israeli missiles strike Syrian regime army near Damascus

The US, Saudi Arabia and Russia have all been accused of war crimes recently for airstrikes hitting hospitals, schools and other civilian areas. (AFP/File)

February 17th, 2016 - 10:09 GMT

A roundup of recent airstrikes which led to accusations of war crimes

The aid convoy goes through final preparations before departing from Damascus. (AFP/Louai Beshara)

February 17th, 2016 - 09:37 GMT

One hundred aid trucks leave Damascus for besieged towns in Syria

Turkish tanks stationed at a Turkish army position near the Oncupinar crossing close to the town of Kilis, south central Turkey, fire towards the Syria border, on February 16, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

February 16th, 2016 - 11:44 GMT

Four Saudi jets to be stationed at Turkey’s Incirlik base by end of month

The UN called the attacks 'a blatant violation of international law'. (AFP/File)

February 16th, 2016 - 11:23 GMT

Turkey accuses Russia of killing 50 in bombings of hospitals, schools

A picture shows the rubble of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on Feb. 15, 2016, after it was hit by suspected Russian air strikes. (AFP/Stringer)

February 16th, 2016 - 10:06 GMT

Syria’s Assad: implementing ceasefire within a week ‘unlikely’

Government forces chat near a tank near the Shia villages of Nabbul and Zahra in Syria's northern Aleppo province which have been under siege by Daesh for three years on February 2, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

February 5th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

World Bank: Syrian war costs region $35 billion in productivity

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg presents the 2015 NATO annual report during a press conference in Brussels, January 28, 2016. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

February 5th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

NATO chief: Russian airstrikes in Syria undermine peace talks

It is estimated that $8 billion is needed over the next two years to support Jordan as a host community for refugees. (AFP/File)

February 5th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Jordan to receive $1.7 billion in grants to support refugee response