Damascus, Syria -- Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday humanitarian projects for Syria including the removal of wartime rubble around Damascus,...
Turkey's main opposition party has announced it will hold an extraordinary congress on September 21 after a court ousted its...
ABU DHABI, UAE – Director-General of the Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (EO AMLCTF) Hamid AlZaabi...The UAE confiscated over US$356 million from March 2023 to mid-July 2023, thereby strengthening its financial system.
The country continues to prioritize international cooperation to combat financial and organized crime.
- The five, who include a businessman and a conservationist, and who left Iran on a Qatari plane accompanied by two...
Biden also granted clemency to the five Iranian ex-detainees. The US insists Iran will only be allowed to use the money to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods.
The five Americans -- all considered Iranian nationals by Tehran, which rejects dual nationality -- were released to house arrest when the deal was agreed last month.
- UN agencies warned that Libya's flood-stricken city of Derna, where thousands were killed a week ago, faces the threat of...
The massive flash flood that killed over 3,000 people and left thousands more missing came as Libya was lashed by the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel.
“Teams from nine UN agencies have been on the ground delivering aid and support,” said the UN Support Mission in Libya.
Jerusalem--Israel's restrictions and rising fiscal constraints in the Palestinian territories are severely impacting the economic conditions of Palestinians and hindering...The World Bank, in a report, said that Palestinian economy was performing below potential, with per capita income expected to stagnate
The report added that the restrictions imposed by Israel often makes it hard to provide timely life-saving healthcare to Palestinians
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Middle Eastern countries are increasingly embracing the Mandarin language, extending China's soft power influence in the...Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab country in the Middle East, recently mandated Mandarin lessons in all public and private secondary schools, according to Saudi Gazette
The United Arab Emirates was the first Gulf state to include Mandarin in its national education system, launching a Chinese language program in schools in 2019
- Ankara, Turkey - Turkey is engaged in “intensive negotiations” with regional partners to propose an alternative to the India-Middle East...
The country has proposed $17 billion Iraq Development Road initiative which would take goods from the Grand Faw port in Iraq through 10 Iraqi provinces and into Turkey
The project will utilize a high-speed rail and road network and is divided into three phases, with the final phase expected to be completed by 2050
Days after thousands of people took to the streets in the Kurdistan region over unpaid civil service salaries which they...Three state-banks will loan the funds and then be reimbursed by the finance ministry in Baghdad
Baghdad has been blamed long by Iraqi Kurdistan for not sending the necessary funds to pay civil servants
Beijing, China - China's top diplomat Wang Yi will begin a four-day visit to Russia for security talks on Monday,...China and Russia are strategic allies, with both countries frequently touting their "no limits" partnership and economic and military cooperation
Their ties became even closer after Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, which China has refused to criticize
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Turkish divers searched on Sunday for the bodies of three firefighters who died when their helicopter crashed into...Turkey has funnelled resources into its emergency response efforts after being gripped by devastating fires in 2021.
Global warming is changing weather patterns and contributing to a years-long drought across swathes of Turkey.
- The coalition's potential presidential candidate, Hisham Kassem, was Saturday sentenced to six months in jail. The presidential election, expected to...
The only candidate campaigning so far, Ahmed al-Tantawi, has denounced repeated harassment by the security forces against his teams and supporters.
Kassem's Free Current coalition, formed in June by opposition parties, advocates economic liberalization and calls for an end to the army's stranglehold on Egypt's economy.
