Middle East

  Uber Technologies is in preliminary talks with rival Careem to combine their Middle Eastern ride-hailing services, Bloomberg reported on…

  Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday transferring some powers to the president, in line with its move to an…

  President Hassan Rouhani appeared on Tuesday to threaten to disrupt oil shipments from neighboring countries if Washington presses ahead…

  Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said regional oil exports may be threatened if the United States tries to pressure its…

  The number of people forced to flee their homes in southwestern Syria as a result of the two week…

  A major insurgent-held town in southwestern Syria has accepted the return of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, pro-government media and…

  Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter US economic sanctions, state news agency…

  A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts…

Around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libya’s western coast, a coastguard official said…

  Turkish journalist Mehmet Altan was released from prison on Wednesday, one of his lawyers said, four months after he…