A senior US administration official insisted Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pullout from Syria will not change his hard line on Iran, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad. In a Senate hearing, Trump's Democratic rivals said he had strengthened adversaries by pulling US troops...

  (Eqtsad)- In the far north-east of Syria, on the border between Iraq and Turkey, where the Orient Express passed more than a decade ago, a small town called Maabadah is separated by a street from one of the most famous oil fields in Syria, Rmelan, and near it the Suwaidiyah fields....

The prospect that thousands of the world's most fanatic jihadists could break out in the chaos caused by Turkey's invasion of northeastern Syria is causing widespread alarm. The Kurdish administration guarding those suspected members of the Islamic State group is crumbling and their fate...

Shares of Turkey’s Halkbank plunged as much 7% on Wednesday, despite a ban on short selling, after U.S. prosecutors charged the state-owned lender with taking part in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran The announcement from U.S. prosecutors came a day after...