There seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction and fatigue from its members with having to put up with oil cuts for so long amid the coronavirus pandemic, says Herman Wang of S&P Global Platts.
Ibrahim Ajami of Mubadala Investment Company discusses the firm's two strategies when it comes to investing in Israel following a normalization of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
While a Biden administration will likely try to restart talks with Iran, the main obstacle may be whether Iran is willing to negotiate — and at what price.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi forces on Monday said they fired a missile at and struck the Jeddah facility. Saudi authorities later confirmed the attack.
This year's G-20 summit failed to provide a "unified global response" to ongoing issues like the coronavirus pandemic, says Josh Lipsky of the Atlantic Council.
Mina Al Oraibi of The National states that the reduction in U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq is significant but still shows American presence in the region.
Saudi Aramco said it had hired banks for a multi-tranche U.S. dollar-denominated bond issuance.
Sluggish inflation, a weak U.S. dollar and a pile of debt on top of stimulus packages, however, may not make the region's post-coronavirus recovery sustainable, says Leila Benali of the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation.
Naguib Sawiris leveled strong criticism at Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing the leader of making a "very big mess" in the Middle East.
If completed, the sale would be the first American transfer of lethal drones and stealth aircraft to any Arab country.
Emirates Group, which includes the airline, said its workforce had shrunk by 24% to 81,334 staff as of Sept 30.
Following a Financial Times report about the SoftBank Vision Fund's possible relocation, Tariq Bin Hendi of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office said it is "actively involved" in inviting firms to move to the emirate.
Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died weeks after being infected by the coronavirus.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will bring back the ethics that were missing during the Trump administration, said Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris.
In Saudi Arabia's case, President-elect Joe Biden's administration could move in a "far tougher" direction over its human rights issues, says Fred Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran is rebuilding an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant, and that the agency had prior knowledge of the construction.
Lincoln Bloomfield, chairman emeritus at the Stimson Center, weighs in on major differences in foreign policy style between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Paul Griffiths of Dubai Airports says quarantines, Covid-19 testing and other travel protocols are not well-coordinated across the world, and stand in the way of getting back to "life as we would like to know it again."
The coordination of three things — testing, travel protocol and quarantines — is the "essential next step" in getting the world moving again, according to Paul Griffiths of Dubai Airports.
A relentless second wave of coronavirus has stopped oil demand recovery, but the prospect of increased supply is further raising the stakes for OPEC+.
