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...

Turkey said on Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post, a week after he vanished during a visit there. The announcement came as a surveillance image surfaced of Jamal...

UN refugee agency UNRWA on Tuesday decried as “irresponsible” Israeli plans to close the agency’s offices in the occupied East Jerusalem.  “UNRWA is carrying out operations within the framework of the UN Charter and bilateral and multilateral agreements which are still...

India has sent experts to try to contain an outbreak of the zika virus in the popular tourist destination of Jaipur, the capital of the northern state of Rajasthan, with a close watch on pregnant women. Twenty-two people in the city have tested positive, the Health Ministry said. There...