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 ...
The Russian air force has killed 35,000 fighters in Syria during its air campaign since September 2015, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Russian warplanes made 71,000 strikes and “liquidated 725 training camps, 405 weapon factories and workshops, 1,500 pieces of terrorist equipment, and 35,000 fighters, including 204 field commanders,” ...
