(Reuters) - Dry weather is likely to cut Syria's 2014 wheat crop by 18 percent on the year to about 1.97 million tonnes, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report on Thursday. The 2014 barley crop in Syria, where an uprising and civil war have been...

WASHINGTON (Zaman Alwasl) — The long-awaited meeting by western-backed opposition with U.S. President Barack Obama finally held on Tuesday. Mr. Obama, who met with Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba, has praised the coalition's role in...

(Reuters) - Egyptian presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave Reuters a wide-ranging interview. The following is the full text. Q: How long do you think it will take to make real difference. What is your expectation as to the timetable before people start seeing...

AFP- Islamist rebels detonated explosives planted in a tunnel under an army base in northwestern Idlib on Wednesday, killing or injuring dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based group said the explosives blew up under a checkpoint inside Wadi Deif...