Resurgent jihadists, ethnic land disputes or regular field burning? Iraq's northern farmlands are on fire, but the area's complex patchwork of grievances has made it hard to identify the culprits. Farmers in the country's breadbasket had been hoping for bumper wheat and barley harvests in...

A top UN adviser warned Thursday of a humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib, northwestern Syria, where the Bashar al-Assad regime has been stepping up airstrikes. In a statement, Najat Rochdi, senior humanitarian adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, said 3 million people in Idlib need...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge fire broke out overnight in a camp sheltering hundreds of Syrian refugees in the Lebanese town of Deir al-Ahmar as rescue workers are still working to extinguish the fire. Activists said Lebanese men had set the fire in al-Kartias camp to force the refugees...

The US economy is expanding faster than any other advanced nation, and in weeks will hit a historic milestone, but the International Monetary Fund and many economists are warning of building signs of trouble. President Donald Trump's multi-front trade wars, especially with economic power...