(The Telegraph)- JK Rowling has connected with a young fan in Aleppo, speaking to her and her mother over Twitter and even sent the Harry Potter books for the child to read. Bana Alabed is a 7-year-old girl living in eastern Aleppo. She reads with her parents, who are trying to distract...

After eight years in the White House, President Barack Obama’s economic legacy shows some successes but these are largely overshadowed by failures. Increased employment, stricter financial regulation following the Wall Street scandals that fueled the 2008 financial crisis and cleaner...

Iran on Wednesday rejected as baseless and unsubstantiated accusations by Israel that Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were using commercial airline flights to ship weapons to the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon made the...

Extending U.S. sanctions on Iran for 10 years would breach the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said Wednesday, warning that Tehran would retaliate if the sanctions are approved. "The current U.S. government has breached the nuclear deal in many occasions,"...