Category: 3. Middle East

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said Thursday.

The warship’s collision with the Besiktas-M took place late the previous day while the carrier was operating near Port…

Turkey has hit German sporting equipment giant Adidas with a fine of more than $15,000 for failing to inform customers that one of its flagship shoe models contained pigskin.

The Muslim-majority country’s advertising regulator slammed Adidas for…

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Thursday that the European Union was working toward swiftly easing Syria sanctions as Paris hosted a conference on the transition in the war-torn country after president Bashar al-Assad’s…

Western nations joined key players in the Middle East on Thursday in a pledge of support for war-torn Syria’s delicate transition after the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad.

Around 20 countries including Arab nations, Turkey, Britain,…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Syria’s new leaders to ensure “governance that is representative and respectful of all” at a Paris conference on the transition in the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad’s fall.

“The hope you…

Two British nationals – a man and a woman – have been arrested in Iran, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

News of their arrest first came from state-run media in Iran which said they were in custody in the south-eastern city of Kerman, accused of…

WASHINGTON — A US Navy aircraft carrier recently stationed in the Middle East was involved in a collision with a commercial vessel near the north side of Egypt’s Suez Canal just before midnight on Wednesday, the Navy said in a statement on…