Middle East

Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the centre of the capital Doha where visiting soccer fans will stay during the World Cup, workers who were ...

Polls on Friday predicted Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would come within a single seat of an outright majority in his quest to return to power in next ...

The U.N. human rights office on Friday voiced concern at Iran‘s treatment of detained protesters and said authorities refused to release some of the bodies of those killed, ...

Egypt’s pound slid about 14.5 per cent to a record low against the dollar on Thursday as authorities announced a $3 billion International Monetary Fund deal with a commitment to a “...

Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has signed an agreement with German air taxi developer Lilium to buy up to 100 of its aircraft for use on Saudia’s domestic network, the state ...

Egypt’s central bank said on Thursday it had raised interest rates by 200 basis points in an exceptional meeting of its monetary policy committee. The central bank set the overnight ...

Israeli and Lebanese leaders finalised a U.S-brokered maritime demarcation on Thursday, bringing a measure of accommodation between the enemy states as they eye offshore energy exploration. Leaders from Lebanon, ...

Oil giant Saudi Aramco launched a $1.5 billion fund to support an inclusive global energy transition on Wednesday while Saudi officials said the switch from hydrocarbons could take decades, necessitating continued ...

Lebanon’s caretaker cabinet on Wednesday approved a decision to waive TotalEnergies’ (TTEF.PA) 40 per cent stake in a consortium to explore the country’s maritime Bloc 9. TotalEnergies was leading ...

Bahrain’s finance minister said on Wednesday that the Gulf countries need to build their production and export capabilities in order to transform their economies, since the majority of their ...

President Joe Biden and Israeli President Isaac Herzog held talks on Wednesday focused heavily on Iran, with the two leaders discussing Tehran’s nuclear program and what Washington says is ...

Iranian riot police deployed in large numbers in Mahsa Amini’s home town of Saqez on Wednesday, witnesses said, after activists called for protests across the country to mark 40 days ...

Egypt’s petroleum minister confirmed on Tuesday a framework agreement had been reached to develop the Gaza Marine gas field offshore Gaza and talks were under way to conclude a ...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) (TASE.TA) said on Monday it would reshape its ownership structure and also create a blockchain platform to allow more trading of crypto currencies ...

Five Palestinians were killed in one of the largest firefights in recent weeks and another was killed later after Israeli security forces raided the flashpoint city of Nablus in the ...

Qatar has faced unprecedented criticism since winning the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, some of which amounted to slander, its ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, said on ...

Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Israel’s Reichman University have set up a school to train high-tech professionals, offering courses in computer programming, sales and data analysis among ...

Egypt will develop a new currency indicator partly to wean people off the idea that the Egyptian pound should be pegged to the US dollar, the new central bank governor ...

Saudi Arabia is in advanced negotiations to order almost 40 A350 jets from Europe’s Airbus (AIR.PA) as part of strategic efforts to launch a new airline and challenge heavyweight ...

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ has invested $125 million in the debut fund launched by Aliph Capital, the Middle East’s first female-led private equity firm. The investment announced by ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on Israel to join the fight against Russia and repeated a request for Israeli air defence systems. “Isn’t it time for your ...

Israeli missiles hit targets near the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday in a rare daytime attack, a Syrian military source said. Israel has conducted strikes for years against what it ...

At a dead-end road in a crime-hit town in central Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu stands on a mobile stage enclosed by a glass wall, pledging through a window to restore law ...

Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday rejected petitions that would have held up a landmark US-brokered deal setting a maritime border with Lebanon, which Washington predicted could be finalised on ...