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Turkey's budget deficit narrows to $6.8B in March as lira fluctuates

A picture taken on Dec. 7, 2021, in Istanbul shows Turkish liras.

Turkey’s Istanbul shaken by 6.2 magnitude earthquake

Istanbul

Gaza rescuers say 40 mostly displaced people killed in Israeli strikes

The father of Abir Srour carries the shrouded body of his daughter, killed in an Israeli strike, during her funeral at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza

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US to withdraw some 1,000 troops from Syria

US forces patrol near Syria's northeastern border with Turkey on September 3, 2024

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2023 in review: Gaza war forces Palestinian question on Biden’s agenda

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Middle East debt issuances nearly triple in Q1 2023 as Saudis take lead

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Sudan: Over 40 dead, 400,000 displaced in RSF's siege on El Fasher

Fighters loyal to the army patrol a market area in Khartoum on March 24, 2025. For nearly two years, Sudan has been ravaged by a war between the regular army and the RSF, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted over 12 million more and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crises. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israeli military chief of staff Halevi resigns over Oct. 7 failures

Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi (front) arrives at a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on May 13, 2024.

Pope Francis, voice for Middle East peace and first to visit Gulf, dies at 88

A worshiper waves the flag of Argentina as Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience on June 5, 2019 at St. Peter's square in the Vatican. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

By Rosaleen Carroll

In Washington, DC, US, reporting on the Middle East

Anxiety clouds Easter for West Bank Christians

Residents of the West Bank town of Zababdeh say its church bells are often drowned out by the roar of Israeli air force jets headed for action nearby.

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