Saudi Arabia on Thursday projected a 2017 budget deficit of $53 billion, a drop of almost half from a record shortfall reported last year after the world’s top oil exporter was hit by falling crude prices. According to a cabinet statement, next year’s budget projects spending of 890 billion riyals ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed on Thursday that the liberation of Aleppo from terrorism is a victory not just for Syria but for all those who are effectively contributing to the fight against terrorism, particularly Iran and Russia. “It is also a relapse for all the countries that are hostile ...