Middle East

Already rampant inflation in Turkey will rise further in the coming months before declining to around 27 per cent by the end of the year, a Reuters poll showed on …

A helicopter flies over the downtown skyline, as seen from the Cleveland Clinic hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group attacked the United Arab Emirates in …

Turkey’s annual inflation rate will be in single digits by the time presidential and parliamentary elections set for mid-2023 are held, Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati said on Saturday. Inflation hit …

The lira held firm on Friday after Turkey’s finance minister was cited as saying inflation would peak in January and hit single digits by June 2023 elections, but a key …

Lebanon’s currency has lost more than 15 per cent of its value since the start of the year, piling further pressure on the population more than two years into a …

Data from Israel on Thursday supported growing evidence worldwide that Omicron causes milder illness than previous variants of the coronavirus even as the country grappled with a record number of …

Turkey’s lira firmed slightly on Wednesday, trimming losses a day earlier as investors weighed up the impact of a surge in inflation to a 19-year peak after last year’s plunge …

Destruction in the Syrian war. A Swedish woman has been charged with war crimes for helping enlist her 12-year-old son to fight as a child soldier in Syria, where he …

Turkey’s annual inflation rate surged to 36.1 per cent last month, its highest in the 19 years Tayyip Erdogan has ruled, laying bare the depths of a currency crisis engineered …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, speaking on the second anniversary of the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani by the United States, said that former US President Donald Trump must face trial …