Turkey's energy minister says its seismic research vessel has begun surveying for energy resources in contested areas of the eastern Mediterranean

Turkey has vowed to press ahead with efforts to search for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean Sea despite an escalating dispute with Greece over drilling rights

Turkey’s president has called a new maritime deal between Greece and Egypt “worthless” and says his country is resuming its disputed oil and gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean

Egypt and Sudan have suspended talks with Ethiopia after it proposed linking a deal on its newly constructed reservoir and hydroelectric dam to a broader agreement about the Blue Nile waters that would replace a colonial-era accord with Britain

A leading international rights group is urging the U.N. Security Council to impose additional sanctions on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels unless they provide U.N. experts access to a dangerous oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen

Iraqi officials say at least two protesters have been killed in new clashes in Baghdad as dozens of demonstrators cut off the road connecting two key city intersections with burning tires

Turkey is rejecting claims by Greece that its oil-and-gas research vessels were encroaching on Greek territory in the eastern Mediterranean and said it would continue to defend its legitimate rights and interests in the region