At least 32 people, including 8 children and 5 women, were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. He said the wave of raids hit IS bases to the north, east and...

President Barack Obama Wednesday slammed American “hysteria” about the security threat posed by Syrian refugees as Republicans sought to freeze a program to resettle them in the wake of the Paris attacks. Seizing upon fears one of the attackers may have entered Europe posing as a Syrian...

A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this. Russian authorities also ordered...

(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Cotton production in the northeastern province of Hasaka has severely declined this year affected by almost five-year-old conflict that combined with lack of insecticides and fertilizers besides decrease in the planted land amid the...