Prime Minister Omar Razzaz on Saturday concluded an official visit to the US, accompanied by an economic-ministerial delegation, during which he held talks with senior US administration officials, the executive directors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a group of businesspeople and investors. The discussions reflected the consensus among international institutions on the necessity of ...

Israeli aircraft struck subterranean Hamas targets on Saturday night after  a projectile was fired at Israel from Gaza, the military said. Rocket sirens sounded 24 hours after Israel struck two Hamas targets following violent protests at the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip, in which Gaza authorities said a Palestinian woman was killed and at least 14 other people were wounded ...

Israel reportedly attacked Syria on Friday, the country’s Sana news agency reported. According to Sana, Israeli plans bombed the outskirts of Damascus on Friday evening. “Around 23:15, an Israeli fighter jet from the Galilee fired several missiles into the Damascus area, and immediately the air defense system took down most of them. One of the warehouses at Damascus International Airport ...

As he nears the end of his term as chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot — who in the past almost always refused to grant interviews — has pulled out all the stops. In a series of interviews with the three main Israeli television channels (plus another with The New York Times), Eisenkot summed up his tenure on Saturday. ...

Israel’s military courts imposed fines topping 60 million shekels ($16 million) on West Bank Palestinians from 2015 to 2017, even though the great majority of the offenses don’t involve the harming of people or property. Two reports by the Military Court of Appeals’ president were submitted to the Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights at its request and were brought to Haaretz’s attention ...

Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who supported Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential run, called-out Barack Obama for an inability to use the term “radical Islamic terror,” met Syrian President Bashar Assad, and slammed Israel for the use of live-ammunition to quell riots on the Gaza border, joined the crowded Democratic presidential race on Friday. “I have decided to run ...

Jordan must continue to invest in airport infrastructure in preparation for a doubling of passengers, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General and CEO has said. Speaking on a visit to the Middle East, Alexandre de Juniac praised the country for its commitment to the aviation sector in the past and said that as traffic in the region grows, ...

If the government shutdown lasts another two weeks, the total cost to the U.S. economy would exceed the price of building the proposed border wall. According to an estimate by S&P Global Ratings, it will only take another two weeks to cost the economy more than $6 billion, exceeding the $5.7 billion that President Donald Trump demanded to fund his proposed border ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon is studying ways to manage its public debt and its structure as part of plans for public finance reform, the finance minister told Reuters on Thursday, after he was cited saying the plan included restructuring of public debt. Ali Hassan Khalil’s remarks to al-Akhbar newspaper about debt restructuring sparked a heavy sell-off in Lebanon’s dollar-denominated debt. ...

African soccer fans can finally book their flights to the 2019 African Cup of Nations after Egypt was confirmed as the host of this year’s tournament. Africa’s soccer confederation (CAF) voted overwhelmingly in favor of Egypt over South Africa this week after South Africa struggled to get financial guarantees. The head of South African soccer has claimed the CAF didn’t supply him ...