The United Nations Monday called on donor countries to supply $3.5 billion in the next two years to help improve education and living standards for the almost three million Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey. Ankara has repeatedly complained of being left alone to deal with the influx of...

(The National)- On December 31, 2016, in an interview with the BBC, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Freihat, Jordan’s chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, spoke about Jordan’s neighbours, ISIL’s presence in southern Syria and its threat to Jordanian national security, as well as the group’s...

 Israel's parliament was set Monday to finalize a bill that would legalize dozens of Jewish outposts in the occupied West Bank, despite a U.S. call for restraint. It had initially been uncertain that a vote would take place Monday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said...

The Turkish government has ordered the transfer of billions of dollars in state assets to a sovereign wealth fund, in a huge shake-up of holdings aimed at financing ambitious infrastructure projects championed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The assets being transferred to the sovereign...