Welcome to our live blog providing real-time updates and insights from West Asia. Follow the latest developments shaping the ...

In the tidy world of finance theory, mean-variance efficiency guides rational investors to build optimal portfolios: maximise return for each unit of risk. But as global events remind us daily, the ...

The Nimitz-class has served the US Navy for half a century and continues to provide a vital power projection capability to ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warns of harsher retaliation as pressure mounts from the US and Europe to revive the ...

Syrian tensions amid sectarian violence in Suweida, Syria. While Syria welcomed US efforts, Israel hasn't commented.

A Druze spiritual leader representing one of the factions in Suwayda, Youssef Jarbou, confirmed an agreement was reached for a “complete and immediate halt to all military operations and de-escalation ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Drones targeted oil fields in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region Wednesday, the latest in a series ...

Shifting macroeconomic conditions and easing geopolitical tensions are reshaping market sentiment and clouding gold’s ...

The U.N. Security Council has authorized continued reporting on attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who ...

The S&P 500 index reached a new closing high in June, marking a sharp recovery from the correction lows experienced in April at the peak of trade policy uncertainty and tension.

The departure of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson from the Middle East comes alongside a reduction in Navy forces in the ...

Thus, Europe will continue to pay close attention to Iran’s nuclear program. But, constrained by poor relations with Tehran and its internal divisions on the Middle East, it is unlikely that it will ...