Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians are being sent by Turkey to Azerbaijan to guard Turkish troops and strategic assets, with suspicions that they may soon find themselves in the current Nagorno-Karabakh clashes, Middle East Eye has learnt. A source based in Turkey with direct knowledge...

 For the second day in a row, Iran announced on Monday its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 272 people confirmed dead. The announcement by Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari saw Iran also give its single-day highest count of new cases with 4,206 new...

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...