Middle East

File photo: The port of Latakia Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday, causing a fire in a container storage area, Syrian state …

The Turkish lira briefly slid 1 per cent on Monday, again nearing record lows touched last week as concerns persisted over President Tayyip Erdogan’s rate-cutting drive and Qatar said it …

File photo: Israeli forces gather at the scene of an attack in the West Bank REUTERS/Ammar Awad Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager who rammed a car into a …

The reluctance of the United Sates to lift all sanctions on Iran is the main challenge to reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, a senior Iranian foreign ministry official was cited …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he hoped that volatile foreign-exchange and inflation rates would stabilise shortly and he again promised low interest rates, after …

FILE PHOTO: Italian fire brigade members prepare to remove crashed cable car cabin, which left 14 people dead, after it collapsed on May 23, 2021, in Stresa, near Lake Maggiore, …

Turkey’s annual inflation jumped more than expected to a three-year high of 21.31 per cent in November, data showed on Friday, further exposing the risks of recent aggressive rate cuts …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed a strong supporter of his low interest rate drive as minister of treasury and finance on Thursday, replacing the last top …

A ship is pictured at the Lybian northwestern port city of Misrata on December 1, 2021. A maritime line connecting the Libyan city of Misrata to that of Aegean port …

Turkish factory activity grew in November, with new export orders and output rising, while a sharp increase in costs pushed output price rises to their fastest pace on record amid …