U.S.-backed Syrian militias are set to announce an operation against Islamic State in the north of Deir al-Zor province, a senior SDF official told Reuters on Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will formally declare the operation on Saturday, with the aim of pushing Islamic...

Hurricane Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove toward Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, killing 19 people and leaving a swathe of catastrophic destruction. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a stark warning to residents to...

 The few bullet-marked schools Islamic State did not flatten or booby trap around its former Syrian stronghold of Raqqa are buzzing for the first time in years with the sound of children learning. In the village of Hazima, north of Raqqa, teachers gave ad-hoc alphabet lessons to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Self-administration of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) opened registration in schools under its control on Tuesday after rejecting the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) offer to hand over 2,000 schools in the province of Hasaka to the international...