The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of “David Copperfield.” The start of North America’s largest film festival heralds the beginning of the fall movie...

Syria’s wheat and barley crops this year improved helped by favorable rainfall and better overall security but food security remains a challenge, a joint report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) said on Thursday. Wheat...

Hundreds of Syrians held anti-regime protests Friday in rebel-held Idlib province where a fragile ceasefire has paused a deadly months-old offensive. Some demonstrators gathered near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, where Turkish border guards last week fired warning shots...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday that it appeared Iran was inching toward a place where talks could be held, days after U.S. President Donald Trump left the door open to a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York....