For oil markets, Venezuela is a footnote in an age of abundance. For Middle East, the US move is a dangerous reminder.

For oil markets, Venezuela is a footnote in an age of abundance. For Middle East, the US move is a dangerous reminder.

Al Jazeera talks exclusively to families of those taken by the Israeli army whose actions are also causing an ecocide.

War and neglect have turned Deir Az Zor’s oilfields into rivers of carcinogenic waste seeping into Syrian soil.

Israeli and US spy chiefs join talks in bid to reach a ceasefire deal, but analysts say a breakthrough is unlikely.

It is the first time the Taliban is attending the talks but female representatives from Afghanistan have been excluded.

Former prisoners who suffered in US detention facilities say Israeli abuse of Palestinians follows the same patterns.

Abu Ala al-Walai, leader of Iraqi armed group KSS, tells our correspondent that the Islamic Resistance will prevail.
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Al Jazeera gains exclusive access to the largest city in Nagorno-Karabakh after tens of thousands of its resident fled.

Talks will include diplomatic envoys and aid donors as the UN plans to press the Taliban to ease restrictions on women.

A former detainee at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq recounts the horror and pain of his incarceration.
