The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is getting warmer and brighter as clouds and thunderstorms from the rainy season recede. The fragrance of butter flowers that accompany the Ethiopian New Year wafts through the air. But some 1,125 kilometers (699 miles) from Ethiopia, in the...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered officials to urgently find solutions to ease an economic crisis spurred by the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday. Washington reintroduced steps against Iran’s currency trade,...

Rival groups are reporting intense battles in eastern Syria between Daesh (ISIS) and U.S.-backed fighters. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces says the fighting Thursday is over the village of Souseh where a sandstorm has caused bad visibility. The Britain-based Syrian...

 Syria’s wheat crop this year was the smallest in three decades as war and drought cut production by around 30 percent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday. Output of 1.2 million tons in 2018 was the lowest since 1989 and compared with a pre-crisis average...