(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Inclusion of the Kurdish language in the curriculum for grade-1 of schools in al-Hasakah, delayed the start of teaching in primary schools in the city as a result of...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 fighters of Islamic State militant group have been killed on Thursday in the ongoing clashes with Kurdish forces near Ras al-Ayn town in the western...

(Reuters) - The effectiveness of the U.S.-led coalition effort in Syria is under scrutiny as Islamic State fighters try to overrun a strategic Syrian town on Turkey's border. The United States and its allies, including Gulf states, have conducted more than 130 airstrikes in Syria...