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Byline: JEFF GERTHPro Publicaand JOBY WARRICKThe Washington Post A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to [...]

Byline: Jeff Gerth and Joby Warrick A week before the last U.S. soldiers left his country in December 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington to meet the [...]

Two leading American aerospace companies have agreed to pay a record $32 million in penalties to settle civil charges that they unlawfully transferred rocket and satellite data to China in [...]

Federal prosecutors have said that President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan accepted large bribes in connection with dispensing his country's oil concessions during the 1990's, and later tried to obstruct the [...]

While both countries say that progress has been made, American officials are finding it hard to stop the longtime flow of money from wealthy Saudis and Saudi-financed charities to people [...]

Officials of the Enron Corporation met four times last year with the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force to discuss energy policy matters, but they never talked [...]

I FIRST heard about Mont Tremblant, the Canadian mountain resort area, from some friends who had gone there to ski. I never paid much attention -- I don't ski. But [...]

After two months of unsuccessful requests, the General Accounting Office demanded today that Vice President Dick Cheney turn over records relating to how his energy task force developed its policies. [...]

An order by federal regulators that power generators enter settlement talks with the State of California could open the door to a sweeping compromise of the financial issues in the [...]

California utilities paid $6.2 billion above competitive prices for wholesale electricity over the last 10 months, according to estimates filed today by the operators of the state's power grid. While [...]

Fifty-five years after the end of the war, and 13 years after Congress first took up the idea of a monument to it, President Clinton and other dignitaries broke ground [...]

The Federal Trade Commission announced plans today to subpoena records from 90 pharmaceutical companies to see whether drug industry strategies were keeping lower-cost generic drugs from patients or harming consumers. [...]

Pharmaceuticals are a risky, but lucrative, business. Drug companies turn scientific advances into life-saving medicines that can generate millions of dollars in sales each day, but the process takes time [...]

Under the banner of clean energy, Earth Day participants today celebrated in the nation's capital and at thousands of events around the globe in an extravaganza of entertainment, advocacy and [...]

The State Department has charged the Lockheed Martin Corporation with 30 violations of arms export laws in connection with its help in evaluating problems in Chinese-made satellite technology in 1994. [...]

They are the elite of Saudi society -- wealthy, respected men with investments that span the globe and reputations for generosity. Yasin al-Qadi is among the prominent Saudis who those [...]

A Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its [...]

The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news […]

Titled ''The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq,'' an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders' pessimism about the country's future. ''Western [...]

Last spring, the White House publicly embraced plans by Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production capacity significantly. But privately, some officials and others advising the government are skeptical about [...]

When he meets at his ranch here on Monday with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President Bush will confront one of his trickiest diplomatic relationships. He will look for [...]

George W. Bush first proposed drilling for oil in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska in 2000, after oil industry experts helped his presidential campaign [...]

Problems in searching fingerprint databases have left the American military unable to check fully the identities of thousands of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, raising concerns that they might be [...]

Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, on Sunday defended the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein even while intelligence analysts disputed an important piece of evidence behind [...]

Vagit Y. Alekperov, the president of Lukoil, is at ease talking about finding fossil fuels. 'I am an expert in the area of oil and gas production,' he said in […]

Higher oil prices have hurt the global economy and could further hamper growth, bolster inflation and increase unemployment over the next two years if prices stay at their current levels, […]

A senior executive at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group told a subordinate in an e-mail message in December that the employee's preliminary analysis of the company's oil and gas reserves problems […]

A former top executive of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group said on Tuesday that he was asked to resign in March 'without credible explanation,' adding that two years earlier he had […]

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group's oil production in Oman has been declining for years, belying the company's optimistic reports and raising doubts about a vital question in the Middle East: whether […]

Nigeria's national oil company says its oil and gas reserves have not been affected by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group's recent reduction of its estimates of proven reserves in the country. [...]

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group has kept secret important details of its sharp reduction in oil and gas reserves, particularly in Nigeria, for fear of damaging its business relationship with the [...]

Arriving on stage in a spaceship and an astronaut suit, Philip Watts, then the senior executive in charge of exploration and production for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, glowed as he [...]

A month before the Royal Dutch/Shell Group downgraded its estimate of its oil and natural gas reserves by 20 percent, the company concluded that some of its chief rivals, like [...]

The new head of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and its current chief financial officer, as well as the chairman ousted last week, were advised of huge shortfalls in proven oil [...]

Saudi Arabian oil executives said Tuesday that they planned to maintain production capacity at the current rate of 10 million barrels a day for the rest of this decade but [...]

When visitors tour the headquarters of Saudi Arabia's oil empire -- a sleek glass building rising from the desert in Dhahran near the Persian Gulf -- they are reminded of [...]