It took exactly half a century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious palace overlooking Egypt’s Mediterranean and immortalised in Lawrence Durrell’s classic, “The Alexandria Quartet.” “I can’t believe it, after all these years of lost hope,” said Patricia Metzger, the British daughter in-law …

The 24 boys found severely malnourished in a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same facility and are being properly cared for, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

Iraq’s central government and the Kurdistan regional authority have resolved disputes holding up a draft oil law aimed at equitably sharing the world’s third largest oil reserves, officials said on Thursday.