President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its air space in response to last week's Kurdish independence referendum. Erdogan, who held talks in Tehran on Wednesday with Iranian leaders, also said Turkey would decide...

Saudi Arabia has told the International Monetary Fund that it is reconsidering the speed at which it imposes austerity steps to avoid slowing the economy too much and boosting unemployment, the IMF said Thursday. "The authorities indicated that they were considering the appropriate pace...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 regime troops killed in US airstrikes on their convoy after the regime made an incursion into the 55km "de-confliction zone" surrounding the US base near al-Tanaf border crossing with Iraq, rebel commander said on Thursday. Saeed Saif, spokesman for...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global stocks came off record highs and the euro held near a seven-week low on Thursday as investors prepared to parse minutes from the European Central Bank’s last meeting for clues to its exit from ultra-easy monetary policy. Political tensions emanating from...