Turkey's central bank, faced with a record-low currency and widening current account deficit, further left behind ultra-loose measures adopted during the coronavirus pandemic when it raised Monday the remuneration rate on required lira reserves. The weakness of the lira, near an all-time...

Suhail Deeb was eager to harvest his olives before sweeping forest fires that ravaged parts of Syria at the weekend left him with nothing but charred trunks and branches. "I used to have 100 trees, but now nothing is left," said the 61-year-old farmer at his blackened olive grove in the...

Mosques across Syria held prayers calling for rain yesterday, in an effort to ease a drought that recently hit the country. The prayers were said to have been ordered by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Middle East was hit by wildfires in recent weeks, forcing thousands of people...

The final decision of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, to run for the post once again depends on the parliamentary blocs’ willingness to cooperate with him, a senior source in the Future Bloc said. “Hariri’s final decision to run for the post depends on the willingness of...