Middle-East

Egemen Bagis, Turkey’s minister for European Union Affairs and chief negotiator, values the strong Saudi-Turkish economic relations and said yesterday that it’s committed strengthening ties with i

TUNIS: Tunisia has received a second yacht belonging to the former dictator’s family, this time from Spain.The $ 5 million, 32-meter yacht arrived at Tunis’ port of La Goulette on Friday.

ANKARA: Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year.

TRIPOLI: The death toll in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli reached 25 yesterday in the seventh straight day of clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in Syria’s two-year civil war,

BEIRUT: Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad shelled a strategic western town yesterday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from

TEHRAN: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month’s presidential elections has vowed to pursue a policy of resistance against the West if elec

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s security services temporarily suspended the country’s two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebel

TUNIS: Amina Tyler, the 19-year-old Tunisian woman who scandalized many in the country by posting topless photos of herself online as a protest, could face six months in