A 34-year-old Muslim man converted to Hinduism to marry his girlfriend with whom he had an affair for the past 10 years, changing his name from Saddam to Shivshankar, police said on Monday.

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point. After the Iraqi dictator was overthrown by a U.S.-led coalition in 2003, President George W. Bush asked Ambassador Paul Bremer to act as Iraq’s ...

HOUSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Growth in oil output from the U.S. Permian basin, the country's top oilfield, is expected to slow by at least 25% this year despite President Donald Trump's vow to ...

A towering statue of Saddam Hussein was today pulled to the ground in a symbolic act against the dictator's oppressive regime. Working together in the heart of Baghdad, US marines helped crowds of ...

Chevron’s initial bid for glory in Namibia’s Orange basin has failed, with the US operator failing to find commercial hydrocarbons with its debut exploration well. Over the past three days ...

ExxonMobil has made a potential play opening discovery in Egypt's frontier Herodotus basin on a prospect that, before drilling began, was estimated could hold up to 5 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Civitas Resources (CIVI.N), opens new tab is exploring a sale of part or all of its assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Colorado, which could be valued ...

Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's hated regime, Iraq has emerged not as a supplicant nation but as a sovereign partner, signing multi-billion pound deals with one of the world's ...

(Reuters) -Oil and gas producer Civitas Resources is exploring a sale of part or all of its assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Colorado, which could be valued at more than $4 billion ...

Imperial Oil and Gas has reported an incident in which contaminated water was "inadvertently released" onto vegetation near a fracking well in the Beetaloo Basin. Environmental experts and ...