Turkey is a country that has faced many economic challenges in recent years such as high inflation, currency depreciation, low growth and external imbalances. The COVID-19 pandemic has also added to the difficulties of the Turkish economy which contracted by 3% in 2020. In this context, the new Turkish government, …

Russian officials said Thursday that overnight airstrikes by Ukrainian forces damaged a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The Chongar bridge is one of the few routes Russian forces use to move between Crimea and other parts of Ukraine under Russian control. Russia has …

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Thursday met with Iran’s foreign affairs minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who is on the second leg of his tour of Gulf countries. The two officials discussed bilateral relations and ways to enhance cooperation, state news agency WAM reported, and also “exchanged views on …