International flights resumed at Syria’s main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since opposition fighters toppled President Bashar Assad last month. A Syrian Airlines flight bound for Sharjah,

Syrian Airlines will resume flights from Damascus to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, starting on Tuesday ... rebels ousted Assad on December 8 took off from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country's north, AFP journalists saw. mam-aya/dcp

Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Friday, January 17, 2025

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The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally

E ven before the ceasefire in Gaza Donald Trump had begun to reshape the Middle East. He was influential in pushing Israel to a truce with Lebanon in November. The fragile deal struck between Israel and Hamas on January 15th further reduces the intensity of the fighting in the region and resets Israel’s domestic politics.

ROME -- Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates signed a three-way clean energy cooperation deal Wednesday that calls for the Gulf country’s expertise to be put to use in Albania to produce solar, wind and other renewable energy, some of which would then be transferred to Italy via an underwater cable.

Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed on Wednesday a deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection to import renewable energy across the Adriatic Sea.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, is a former al Qaeda militant,

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of

UAE state-owned renewable energy firm Masdar announced on Tuesday plans to create a new solar and battery energy facility that will deliver 1 gigawatt of uninterrupted clean power and is expected to cost around $6 billion.

Kenya and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on Tuesday aimed at boosting trade, investments and creating jobs.