Middle East

By:Leo Nirosha Darshan  Foreign Employment Minister Vijitha Herath tells Parliament Sri Lanka reviewing reintroduction of mandatory minimum wage for migrant workers under 2023-2027 National Policy Says policy under review to balance…

Oil prices surged more than 9% on Friday, hitting their highest in almost five months after Israel struck Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East and raising worries about disrupted oil supplies. Brent crude futures…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday U.S. personnel were being moved out of the Middle East because “it could be a dangerous place,” adding that the United States would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Reuters reported…

Oil prices climbed more than 2% on Wednesday on rising concerns that Middle East tensions could escalate, potentially disrupting crude output from the region, following Iran’s biggest ever military blow against Israel. Brent futures…

With the United States and Israel expecting a military response any minute now from Iran or its proxies for the recent deaths of Hamas’s political leader and Hezbollah’s second-in-command, the most visible presence of the U.S. military in…

In his fourth address to the Joint Session of the Congress on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Iran over funding and supporting groups against Israel and asserted that defeating the brutal enemies requires both…

Up to 21,000 children are missing, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves or lost from their families in the chaos of Gaza war, British aid group Save the Children has said. “It is nearly impossible to collect…

President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. “shall respond” after three American troops were killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border. Biden blamed Iran-backed militias…

Sri Lanka’s Colombo port has seen a big jump in container volumes in recent weeks as vessels steering clear of tensions in the southern Red Sea have found it a convenient transit point, officials said on Tuesday. Yemen’s Iran-backed…

Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, has launched a new route connecting Abu Dhabi and Colombo on Wednesday (Dec. 08). Accordingly, Air Arabia now flies directly between Abu Dhabi and Sri…