2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1797+ words) Sadri Haghshenas spends her days selling borek " a layered, savory pastry " at a shop in Istanbul, but her mind is on her daughter in Tehran. The family had to send her home to Iran after they ran into difficulties renewing…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (982+ words) Efforts to extend the ceasefire in Lebanon are accelerating amid Israeli reports of a new round of talks at the ambassador level paving the way for direct negotiations. Lebanese officials say a meeting between President Joseph Aoun and US President…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1314+ words) Israel is prepared for another two weeks of war with Iran and has planned a list of targets for attacks, including infrastructure and economic facilities, while continuing to hit Iran's defense industries. "The Iranian economy would be Israel's next target,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1704+ words) Lebanon will hold direct negotiations with Israel at the US State Department on Tuesday amid concerns that they will be a failure with each party clinging to their conditions. The success of the negotiations will also have implications in Lebanon…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1711+ words) Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Sunday he was working to stop the Israel-Hezbollah war, even as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu told troops in south Lebanon that the fight there was far from over. The Lebanese Red Cross said in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (575+ words) The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the "heinous" attacks carried out by Iran and its proxies on a number of vital facilities in Kuwait. A ministry statement said on Saturday that "the Kingdom reiterates its categorical rejection of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (387+ words) Gaza's civil defense rescue service said on Saturday that Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian territory had killed seven people overnight, despite the fragile ceasefire in place since October last year. Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the group, which operates under the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1685+ words) The war in the Middle East will have a cascading impact on the global economy, even if a ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump takes hold, World Bank President Ajay Banga told Reuters in an interview on Friday. And…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1177+ words) Syria "is in the final stages of establishing a correspondent bank account with neighboring T'rkiye's central bank and will also discuss a potential currency swap aimed at boosting trade, the Syrian central bank chief said. T'rkiye has been the main…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (726+ words) The impact on T'rkiye's economy of the conflict in the Middle East may be temporary and reversible if the recent ceasefire holds, and authorities are ready with a different set of tools if the shock persists, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek…...