U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egypt on Sunday for the first time since the army toppled the country's first freely elected president on July 3, state news agency MENA said. It said the visit to Egypt, whose alliance with the United States has come under strain, would only...

The Colonel held out through two years of conflict, but recently the economic conditions there have become untenable.   In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half years of war, but...

The UN food aid agency said Friday that it feared a rise in malnutrition among children trapped in besieged communities in Syria where fighting has halted supply convoys. "The World Food Programme is concerned about the fate of many Syrians trapped in conflict areas and still in need of...

Most of the nearly 1,000 people killed last month were civilians, according to government figures. Nearly 1,000 people were killed across Iraq in October, making it the country's deadliest month since April 2008, figures compiled by government ministries showed.. A total of...