Oil prices edged up slightly Thursday after being hammered the day before by data showing a sharp rise in US stockpiles, while analysts warned a pick-up in the dollar would add further downward pressure. Both main contracts plunged Wednesday after the US Energy Department said commercial inventories in the world’s ...
Turkish military experts on Thursday cleared mines from the area of the Syrian town of Jarabulus captured from Takfiri insurgents last week, using controlled explosions that sent clouds of dust and smoke into the sky, an AFP photographer said. Pro-Ankara Syrian militants, backed by Turkish aviation and tanks, took Jarabulus ...