The Islamic State group has executed 16 Iraqi traders taking food from the city of Baiji to the government-controlled western city of Haditha, officials said Sunday. "Daesh executed 16 Haditha traders last night," the mayor of the city, Abdelhakim al-Jughaifi, told AFP by phone. "The victims...

The Syrian air force on Sunday extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in Syria, conducting a series of airstrikes on Aleppo, Daraa and Hama that killed 15 people, activists said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 6 victims including a woman and a child...

OPEC is unlikely to change its production ceiling when the group meets in June, Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Sunday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency. "Lowering OPEC's production ceiling requires consensus between all members ... under current conditions it seems...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Many Syrians on Wednesday broke into the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul which forced the Turkish police to intervene and get them outside. A source works inside the Syrian consulate explained to Zaman al-Wasl that people broke into the consulate after a young...