Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA — Egypt and Turkey are seeking to deepen energy cooperation after their energy ministers met in Baku this week, as the two countries move to translate their recent rapprochement into broader economic ties. 

What happened: Egyptian…

A former US Army combat surgeon who volunteered at Gaza hospital has a Democratic primary in New Jersey. Here’s what you need to know about Adam Hamawy.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka knocked out of the French Open by quarterfinal defeat to Diana Shnaider at Roland-Garros.

Aryna Sabalenka’s bid for a first French Open title has been left in tatters after she fell…

By Allison Lampert

June 3 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s aviation regulator has carried out a safety audit of Middle East Airlines as pilot groups raised concerns that crews were being asked to fly close to airstrikes and penalized for reporting safety…

CAIRO, June 3 (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, health officials said, and the Palestinian militant group Hamas said an end to such attacks was crucial to further talks on safeguarding a U.S.-brokered…

The last 100 years have seen a boom in trade, prosperity and wealth across the world, at unprecedented rates in human history. As a species, we…

Iran struck Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday, severely damaging the facility and leaving at least one dead. The attack prompted widespread condemnation in the Gulf as Kuwait summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires to deliver an official…

Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s special envoy for Lebanon, is to arrive in Beirut on Wednesday as Paris seeks to restore its flagging diplomatic role in the country, experts say.

When the former French foreign minister meets President Joseph Aoun,…

By Benjamin Raab

JERUSALEM, June 3 (Reuters) – Israel’s hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians hope will be part of a…

By Samia Nakhoul

DUBAI, June 3 (Reuters) – The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran was meant to break the Islamic Republic. Instead, the warring sides are edging towards an interim agreement that would leave Iran battered but not broken.

As the outlines of a…