Middle Eastern countries

A few Arab countries are ready to offer assistance in the air strikes carried out against the Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria, according to US officials.

The 10-day detention of two World Cup 2022-related labor rights researchers from Britain points to escalating hostilities between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over Doha’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood

The European Union is warning Cyprus that it may be flouting the terms of its multibillion-euro rescue package after the country’s parliament approved legislation softening a crucial foreclosures law.

Turkey’s newly-assigned Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has held a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry, amid Washington-led efforts to forge an international coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has slammed Ankara and Turkish-Cypriot officials for lack of progress on reunification talks suggesting that their real objective is to upgrade the illegal state in the Turkish-occupied northern part of the island.

The newly appointed United Nations special adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide (photo), will hold a joint meeting with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu in Nicosia on September 17.

Eide revealed that the meeting would take place after holding separate talks with the two men on Friday.

Cyber crime police on Cyprus were investigating a case on Friday involving a malicious text message announcing that there would be a new haircut on bank deposits in the island-nation.

The ostensible author of the text, Dimitra Kalogirou, chief of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, denied sending the SMS and alerted authorities.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in Wales for a two-day NATO summit, was expected to meet with Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sildelines of the event Friday.

“It is difficult to understand Greek Cypriot mentality,” Turks and other people complaining of Greeks often say. Wrong.

Just like any others would have acted had they been spoiled throughout previous decades by almost the entire international community; Greek Cypriots are simply trying to gain everything without paying at all.

Shareholders of Bank of Cyprus, which recapitalized by seizing clients' deposits in 2013, on Thursday approved plans for a 1 billion euro capital issue ahead of EU-wide stress tests later this year.