Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said. Government media in Syria confirmed four casualties in the strikes, on which Israel did not comment.

Chanel stores in the UAE reportedly refused to sell products to Russian customers unless they signed a document committing not to use the products in Russia.

Higher-than-expected credit losses and inflation are to blame.

For months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking Western allies for heavy weapons, vowing that his forces could turn the tide of the war with more firepower. The calls appear to be resonating now, with a host of NATO countries pledging to provide a range of heavy weapons and...

Turkey has been trying to negotiate an end to the conflict between the two countries, hosting meetings between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in its capital Istanbul, as well as a summit between the two countries' foreign ministers in Antalya.

Hours before the flight, the airline said on its Facebook page that "it has not yet received operating permits," and expressed "deep regret to the travelers for not being allowed to operate."

Economic growth in the eurozone accelerated and hit a seven-month high in April, a key survey showed on Friday, despite concerns about inflation and Russia's war in Ukraine. Meanwhile goods and services prices rose at an unprecedented rate in April amid another near-record rise in firms' costs.

Italy is ethically obliged to stop buying Russian gas "soon" as the payments are funding the Ukraine war, the country's Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said in an interview Thursday. The minister is currently on a two-day trip to Angola and Congo Republic seeking energy deals as Italy scrambles to...

Ukraine on Sunday vowed to fight to the end in Mariupol after a Russian ultimatum expired for remaining forces to surrender in the Black Sea port city where Moscow is pushing for a major strategic victory. "The city still has not fallen," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said hours after Moscow's...

The Swiss banking giant said it has taken a hit from the Ukraine war, litigation.

European car sales sank in March as Russia's invasion of Ukraine added more problems to a sector already struggling with shortages of semiconductors, industry data showed Wednesday. Passenger car registrations fell 20.5 percent compared to the same period last year, with 844,187 units sold, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers'...

The newly formed, eight-man leadership council performed a largely symbolic swearing-in in Aden in front of members of a parliament elected in 2003.

A string of European leaders have made the trip to Kyiv and met with Zelensky.

Egypt will import wheat from India to compensate for the loss of wheat supplies from Ukraine and Russia, the north African nation's main sources of wheat. El-Said Marzouq El-Qosair, Egypt’s minister of agriculture and land reclamation, said this comes within the framework of the state’s efforts to secure new sources...

Yemen's new leaders are "ready for war" should the latest push for peace with Houthi rebels fail, but a senior official told AFP they genuinely want the years-long conflict to end soon. "Our first option is peace, but we are ready for war," Abdullah al-Alimi said late Saturday in his...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, April 16, called Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.

European Central Bank policymakers meet on Thursday faced with the challenge of threading a response between record-high inflation figures and weak growth due to the war in Ukraine.

Tens of billions of dollars in Iranian money were blocked in many countries including China, South Korea and Japan.

US President Joe Biden announced an $800 million military aid package for Ukraine on Wednesday as international prosecutors declared the war-torn Western ally a "crime scene" amid fears of a massive revamped Russian assault. The Russian military has threatened to strike Ukraine's command centers in the capital Kyiv if Ukrainian...

In Denmark, large black pipes are about to be buried in a muddy trench, as construction of a gas pipeline from Norway to Poland resumes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. From plans for liquefied natural gas terminals in northern Germany, Finland and France to potential new routes through Spain and...

Russia's invasion created a crisis of 'immense proportions' and a 'severe blow' to the global economy. Russia's war in Ukraine could almost halve world trade growth this year and drag down global GDP growth too, the World Trade Organization (WTO) projected Monday. The WTO said that the Russian invasion dealt...

Swedish firm said it was suspending its operations.

The PCK refinery in Germany has been processing crude oil from Russia since before reunification, but a looming ban on Russian oil has put its future in doubt.

In a bombed-out building in northwest Syria, rescue workers who for years have braved Russia's war strategies film a tutorial video for Ukrainian volunteers.

The 200 volunteers at work in Baghdad remove garbage from a stretch of one of the mighty rivers that gave birth to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Across the MENA region, people are struggling to secure even the most basic staples in view of soaring food and fuel prices triggered by Russia's February invasion of Ukraine.

Russia denied being behind the missile strike, which came even as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell were visiting Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and to visit the scene of civilian killings in the town of Bucha.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent ‘shocks’ through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has said.

The European Central Bank has voiced its concern that cryptos can be used to evade Russian sanctions. But, the co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said cryptos cannot be used to dodge sanctions.

The wheat is being procured from Europe, North and South America, and Australia, and will arrive in Saudi Arabia from September to November this year.

Inflation was up from 54.4% in February to 61.14% in March.

A UN-brokered two-month truce took effect in Yemen Saturday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and analysts hope for a rare respite in the impoverished country's seven-year war.

Suez Canal posted twenty percent increase in revenue in the first quarter of 2022 despite the Russian-Ukraine war disturbing the global supply chain.

The UAE has expressed its "support" for the UN ceasefire, which was also welcomed by the US, UN chief Antonio Guterres, the European Union, and the leaders of Britain, France, and Iraq.

Ukrainian authorities said Saturday the body of a well-known photographer, Maks Levin, had been found near a village in the region around Kyiv that had been caught up in the fighting. Levin became the sixth journalist killed in the war, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Iraq exported $11.07 billion of oil last month, the highest level for half a century, as crude prices soared amid shortfall fears following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the oil ministry said.

Peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow resumed via video amid evacuations from Ukraine, but the Kremlin warned that what it described as a helicopter attack on a fuel depot would hamper the negotiations. The airstrike hit energy giant Rosneft's fuel storage facility in Belgorod, around 40 kilometers from the border...

Marta Ortega on Friday took the reins of Zara-owner Inditex.

Russia threatened Thursday to turn off its gas taps to Europe if the continent fails to pay in rubles, opening up a new front amid its war in Ukraine, where NATO and Kyiv warned that Russian troops were regrouping for new attacks. Over a month into Russia's invasion of its...

Citing US intelligence, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said "he felt misled by the Russian military."

Tunisia is facing major structural challenges that result in deep macroeconomic disequilibria, a weak growth in spite of its strong potential, a high unemployment rate, weak investment, and social inequality, International Monetary Fund has said. The impact of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine are now adding to these...

Vladimir Putin’s pledge to scale down military activity was met with skepticism in Ukraine and Western capitals, with the Pentagon saying Moscow had merely repositioned a ‘small number’ of forces near Kyiv, but could be preparing a ‘major offensive’ elsewhere.

Iran offered its support on Tuesday for a ceasefire plan put forward by rebels it backs in Yemen's war, saying it could be an "appropriate platform" for ending the conflict. The offer came a day after the insurgents fired on 16 targets inside Saudi Arabia.

International powers must keep talking with Russia's President Vladimir Putin until he is ready to end his invasion of Ukraine, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday.

The Libyan people want to end a decade of violence and elect a government, showing "zero appetite" for further conflict despite a renewed political standoff, the UN's top in-country official told AFP.

War-torn Yemen faces an "extremely troubling outlook" after a serious escalation between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, the head of the United Nations Development Program warned on Sunday.

The UAE is going to invest some $2 billion in Egypt by buying up the state-owned companies in order to shore up the country's teetering economy as hardships from the Ukraine war spike.

The nickel market is dominated by a handful of players, including Tsingshan, founded by Xiang Guangda.

Retirees and YouTubers, on package tours or lugging backpacks, are braving Iraq's still basic tourist infrastructure to visit ancient sites that rival those of Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said Russia's oligarchs can continue to do business in his country so long as they respect national and international law.