Syria’s Assad wins warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation
By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Samia Nakhoul JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm…
Middle East
Air strikes hammer Khartoum as army chief drops RSF foe from Sudan council
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s capital Khartoum and sister city Bahri came under renewed air attack on Friday as the war between…
Syria’s Assad shakes hands, kisses cheeks with onetime foes at Arab League summit
By Maya Gebeily (Reuters) – Every handshake would count, and Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad had plenty of them at Friday’s…
From joy to dismay, Syrians split over Assad’s Arab League return
DAMASCUS/ATMEH, Syria (Reuters) – As some Syrians welcomed President Bashar al-Assad’s return to the Arab League on Friday, others expressed…
Factbox-Then and now: How Arab states changed course on Syria
(Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad’s attendance at an Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday is the result of big…
Turkish banks restrict credit access amid pre-runoff uncertainty
By Nevzat Devranoglu and Ebru Tuncay ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish banks have restricted access to some individual loans and postponed…
Turkey’s net FX reserves hit 21-year low of $2.3 billion before vote
ANKARA (Reuters) – The Turkish central bank’s net international reserves dropped some $4.45 billion to a 21-year low of $2.33…
‘Where is the state?’: Mass looting engulfs Sudanese capital
By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Mass looting by armed men and civilians is making life an even greater misery…
France taking Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to Arab League, G7 meeting – source
(Reuters) – A French government plane is taking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia…
U.S., G7 to unveil new sanctions targeting Russia over Ukraine
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The United States and the rest of the “Group of…