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The agriculture ministers of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria have agreed to support an initiative to boost food security in the region. According to the Jordan News Agency (Petra),...

Russia is likely to propose that OPEC+ reduces oil output by around 1 million barrels per day at its next meeting in October, a source familiar with the Russian...

The global food crisis is a result of the West's "predatory policies," Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The West is provoking a global...

Russians have been fleeing to Istanbul after the Kremlin announced a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports. According to the report, an influx of Russians to...

Lebanon's first grain shipment from Ukraine under the Istanbul grain export deal arrived in the port of Tripoli yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Ostosh said, during...

Ukraine's President and security chiefs met on Monday to plan ways to counteract Russia's use of "new types of weapons" after Moscow stepped up attacks in Odessa region using...

Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has told Bloomberg said that his country will not get a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after one or two...

The war in Ukraine is in its seventh month, and Russia's new tsar has been unable to achieve the goals announced at the beginning of his "limited military operation",...

German utility company RWE yesterday signed a deal with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe's largest economy by the end...

Ukraine has downgraded its diplomatic relations with Iran and withdrew the accreditation of the Iranian ambassador over Tehran's supply of drones to Russia. Ukrainian military forces yesterday shot down...

Saudi Arabia has won a diplomatic victory by securing freedom for foreign fighters captured in Ukraine, signalling the value of the Crown Prince's alliance with Russia to Western partners...

Israel is preparing for the expected increase in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, following President Vladimir Putin's decision of a partial military mobilisation of the Russian population...

Emphasising that the Istanbul grain deal is running "smoothly", the Turkish President, on Friday, said more than four million tons of grain have, so far, been exported from Ukrainian...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has denounced US warnings to impose sanctions on Turkish banks over using the Russian MIR transaction payment system, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking to reporters...

Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval exercises in the northern Indian Ocean "this autumn", Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Mehr quoted Iranian Chief of Staff, Major...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will convene a top tier economy-focused meeting on Friday at which Russian payment system, MIR, and possible Western sanctions will be discussed, two sources with...

The exchange has been hailed in the US and Britain. US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, thanked Ukraine for including two American citizens in the deal

Russia has decided to move units of its 217th Paratroop Regiment from Syria to Ukraine, Newsweek has reported. Troops from the regiment were deployed to Belarus a month before...

This month has likely been the most crushing for Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine almost seven months ago. In an aggressive counter-offensive operation, Ukrainian forces recaptured...

The Iranian Oil Ministry said that a gas purchase and gas swap deal between Iran and Russia will be announced soon. Tehran is set to import up to 9,600,000...

German utilities RWE (RWEG.DE) and Uniper (UN01.DE) are close to striking long-term deals to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar's North Field Expansion project to help replace Russian...

Steps that Turkish lenders, Isbank and Denizbank, took to suspend the use of Russian payment system, MIR, make a lot of sense, a senior US administration official said on Tuesday, and said the United States...

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Tuesday said he was "very irritated" about Turkiye's attempts to join a Central Asian security body dominated by Russia and China, Reuters reports. Turkish...

Two of Turkiye's largest banks have suspended their acceptance of Russia's MIR payments system after US warnings of punishment for sanctions evasion, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, Turkiye's...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Russia and Ukraine have reached an understanding regarding the exchange of 200 prisoners from both sides. Erdogan said during an interview with...

The Kremlin on Monday that "loud announcements" from US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on the causes of the border conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia were unlikely to...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani said Sunday, that Tehran is ready to conduct a prisoner exchange deal with the United States, whether the nuclear agreement is revived or...

The US Republican senator (from Florida) and the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Marco Rubio – AFP US Republican Senator and Vice Chairman of the...

Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is...

Head of Hamas's Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh has revealed that his movement has been trying to mend ties with Saudi Arabia. Speaking to Russia Today on Thursday, Haniyeh shared...

Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced on Friday plans for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to expand, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at a meeting of the SCO leaders in...

Ankara is putting "sincere efforts" to end the crisis in Ukraine and let the grain to be exported to Africa, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday, Anadolu...