The state oil company of the energy-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates says it has signed a deal worth $1.45 billion with French oil giant Total SA granting it stakes in new offshore fields

The Cyprus government says Italian company Eni is committed to carrying on its search for gas off the east Mediterranean island despite Turkey's strong opposition

Iran's state-run oil company has signed a $740 million agreement with a Russian-Iranian consortium to develop two oil fields near the Iraqi border

Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have each extended a concession to an offshore oil field they share to a Japanese consortium despite a diplomatic crisis between the two of them tearing at the region

Turkey's prime minister has renewed a threat against efforts to search for offshore gas around Cyprus

Egypt has given a warm welcome to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with military fanfare and a trip to the Suez Canal meant to underline a growing strategic partnership

A Turkish court on Monday rejected lawyers' request for two Greek soldiers arrested in Turkey to be release from custody

Cyprus' president says a resumption of talks to reunify the ethnically split island nation is unlikely any time soon because of Turkey's naval blockade of an offshore gas search

The European Union warned Turkey on Friday to rein in its navy after Turkish warships threatened and blocked an Italian rig from reaching a site southeast of Cyprus where it was to drill for natural gas

The top executive of Italian company Eni says that planned drilling in search of gas off Cyprus could be put on hold until Turkey can be convinced to pull back its warships preventing a rig from reaching the site