The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Israeli escalation at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem. The meeting was called by Jordan, in cooperation with Egypt and Palestine, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The meeting “will be...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and from an airport in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, a top Turkish official announced Wednesday, citing an alleged increase in Kurdish militant activity threatening flight safety. The airspace was closed Tuesday to...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board sank off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, killing at least three of them. Five people were rescued while efforts continued to find the other missing crew, officials and news reports said. The...

Middle East supplies of crude oil are expected to contract further, starting in May, after the OPEC + group announced plans to cut production further. This is expected to raise costs for refiners from Asia to Europe and prompt them to seek more supplies from Russia, Africa and the Americas....