The United States imposed Iran-related sanctions Thursday on two individuals and six companies, including four firms tied to the National Iranian Oil Company. Tensions between Iran and the United States have ratcheted up since 2018, most recently over an U.S. attack that killed a top...

 Lebanon is looking to secure $4 billion - $5 billion in soft loans from international donors to finance purchases of wheat, fuel and medicines, Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star cited finance minister Ghazi Wazni as saying on Thursday. Wazni, named minister in a new cabinet formed on...

  Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has taken emergency steps to try to halt a dramatic fall of the local currency, forbidding the use of money other than Syrian pounds for transactions with the threat of prison and hard labour. The once-resilient Syrian pound has halved...

Oil prices rose to their highest in more than week on Monday after two large crude production bases in Libya began shutting down amid a military blockade, setting the stage for crude flows from the OPEC member to be cut to a trickle. Brent crude LCOc1 futures were up by 74 cents, or 1.1%,...