Kyiv, Ukraine -- Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early Sunday, killing four people and setting government offices...
Oil ministers in the V8 grouping -- comprising Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and...
The poorest country on the Arabian peninsula, Yemen's economy has collapsed in the eight years of war between Iran-backed Houthis...UN special envoy for Yemen warned of "public threats to return to war" in the Middle Eastern nation while the US and UK warned of escalating attacks and threats from Houthi rebels
US Ambassador said Washington "strongly" condemns "senseless" maritime attacks by Houthis "on maritime shipping which are also exacerbating the humanitarian crisis"
- In a separate statement late Tuesday, the commerce ministry announced the total lifting of subsidies on petrol and a partial...
In two decrees issued late Tuesday, Assad doubled the salaries and pensions of those currently and formerly employed in the civil service and military
Prior to the decision, the monthly salary of civil servants had been between around $10 and $25, depending on the Syrian pound's street value
ABU DHABI, UAE - A two-day meeting of world leading economists and finance leaders convened by the COP28 Presidency has...Particular areas of focus for the new framework will include addressing debt distress in vulnerable countries.
Group said that private finance flows need to grow much faster to meet the $2.4 trillion investment estimated nnually.
Estimates reveal a 9-meter decline in Caspian Sea water levels, shrinking the area by 24 percent, as the northern half...Estimates reveal a 9-meter decline in Caspian Sea water levels, shrinking the area by 24%, as the northern half witnesses a more significant drop than the southern part.
The Caspian Sea supports a vital fishery, provides water for agriculture, and is home to several threatened species, including 90% of the world's last-remaining sturgeon.
- MOSCOW, RUSSIA - The 11th Moscow Conference on International Security, held at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center here, saw...
The conference saw participation from over 800 delegates from 76 countries, including China, India, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Mexico, the UAE, Saudi Arabia.
Representatives from eight international organizations, including the UN, CSTO, SCO, ASEAN, Arab League, and the African Union took part in the conference.
- Twelve years after conflict broke out when President Bashar al-Assad repressed peaceful pro-democracy protests, Syrians are still trying to escape...
Omar, 23, from Daraa province, borrowed $8,000 to be smuggled to Libya and then Italy this year, saying he was desperate to leave "a country with no future"
More than 1,800 migrants of various nationalities have died crossing the central Mediterranean towards Europe this year, according to IOM
- Three thousand additional US personnel on troop-landing warships have already passed through the Red Sea, and US-led maritime forces are...
"There is a heightened threat, a heightened risk to regional mariners in terms of seizures" by Iran in the strait, said Tim Hawkins, spokesman for the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.
Less than a week earlier, 3,000 US Marines and sailors arrived in the Red Sea on board the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships, which can ferry troops ashore by aircraft.
- Some 234 families were evacuated from front line areas in the capital's southern suburbs, along with dozens of doctors and...
The clashes erupted over the detention of the head of the 444 Brigade by the rival Al-Radaa Force
Social council in Soug el-Joumaa said a ceasefire would follow the transfer of the force's commander
The boat was spotted on Monday almost 200 miles from the island of Sal by a Spanish fishing boat, which...Media reported that the "pirogue" style boat common in the region left Senegal a month ago
Senegal's foreign ministry said that 38 people were rescued from the migrant boat off the Cape Verde coast
- During the Feast of the Assumption ceremony in Tunis' La Goulette suburb on Tuesday, Catholic and Muslim participants marched behind...
Archbishop of Tunis said the procession aimed to show how La Goulette and Tunisia could offer a model for coexistence between different religions and nationalities
Humanitarian sources say at least 2,000 sub-Saharan Africans have been expelled or forcibly transferred by Tunisian security forces to desert regions bordering Libya or Algeria
