Amina Hamawy burst into tears and then fainted when she returned to eastern Aleppo to find that looters had ransacked her home. "Where am I? What happened?" she asked after her husband and daughter revived her. "We have lost everything." They were among a few hundred residents who fled...

Oil prices fell by one percent on Monday as a higher U.S. rig count unsettled markets amid nagging concern that output cuts, planned as part of concerted action between producer club OPEC and Russia, might not be as big as initially anticipated. International Brent crude futures LCOc1 were...

The United Nations appealed Monday for a record $22.2 billion (20.9 billion euros) to provide aid in 2017 to surging numbers of people hit by conflicts and disasters around the world. The work of humanitarians "is more necessary and courageous than ever," U.N. humanitarian aid chief Stephen...

 (Zaman AlWasl)- Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian regime forces, a rebel official said Monday, as the army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held enclave. "Karm al-Jabal and al-Shaar are considered...