Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday he hoped his country and Russia could find a solution over the northern Syrian region of Idlib, a rebel-held enclave which the Syrian government says it aims to recapture.

The Idlib region, a refuge for civilians and rebels displaced from other areas of Syria as well as powerful jihadist forces, was hit by a wave of air strikes and shelling last week, in a possible prelude to a full-scale government"...

Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Armed Forces, Defense Minister Major Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayoub discussed on Tuesday with a delegation of UN senior commanders the redeployment of UNDOF forces in the Golan.

The delegation comprises Commander of the UN forces operating in the Golan on the 1974 Disengagement Agreement (UNDOF) Major General Francis Vib-Sanziri, and Major General Kristin Lund Chief of Staff of the (UNTSO)., responsible for the"...

President Tayyip Erdogan denied on Saturday that Turkey is in a currency crisis, dismissing a plunge in the lira as ‘fluctuations’ which have nothing to do with economic fundamentals.

Speaking after US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium imports, Erdogan described Friday’s 18 percent fall in the lira to a record low as the ‘missiles’ of an economic war waged against Turkey.

Erdogan"...

The Cabinet approved on Sunday a plan to develop legislations and make them clear and flexible to suit the requirements of post-war stage.

In its weekly session chaired by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, the Cabinet formed a work group from the Ministries of Justice, Finance, and Administrative Development along with the Planning and International Cooperation Authority and the Secretariat General of the Cabinet to develop the executive mechanisms for"...

A key objective of President Donald Trump’s trade war is to pressure Beijing to “buy American”, but when it comes to millions of dollars of US meat imports, China may simply take its business elsewhere.

Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs on US meat are making them prohibitively expensive and Chinese importers are simply turning to other sources, a trend expected in other sectors as well.

“When the US prices go so expensive after the duties... we will source from other origins,”"...

Saudi Arabia will suspend new trade and investment with Canada after that country’s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists, it said in a statement released to the official Saudi Press Agency on Sunday.

It also gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave the country and recalled its own ambassador to Canada, the statement by the Saudi foreign ministry said, adding it retained “its rights to take further"...

Syria’s government is to set up a committee to coordinate repatriating millions of its nationals who fled the country’s seven-year conflict, state media has said.

The Cabinet on Sunday “agreed to create a coordination body for the return of those displaced abroad to their cities and villages,” state news agency SANA reported.

Five million displaced

On Friday, for the first time in six years, a Syrian cargo ship, the Souria, crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus strait heading to the Black Sea, Turkish media has reported.

Turk Press quoted official sources as saying that the freighter ship was loaded in the Turkish port of Kocaeli heading to Russia’s southern port of Caucasus. The news agency added that “the last time for a Syrian ship to cross the Bosphorus Strait was in 2012.”

The government of Djibouti has refused to recognise a London arbitral tribunal ruling against the African state’s seizure of Doraleh Container Terminal from DP World in February.

A tribunal of the London Court of International Arbitration has ruled that the concession agreement awarded to DP World in 2006 to operate the terminal “remains valid and binding notwithstanding Law 202 and the 2018 decrees [issued by the Djibouti government]”,"...

Work is going in full swing across the UAE sports scene, as the country is gearing up for the 17th AFC Asian Cup 2019, with passionate football fans eagerly waiting for the crowning of the continent's champions, at the end of what will be the largest ever edition of the tournament.

After a record-setting group stage performance by Asian teams at the 2018 Fifa World"...