After Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman lost his last wheat crop to a wildfire, he had hoped for a better harvest this summer. But this spring there was hardly any rain. "Last year the field I planted was burnt to the ground," said the 48-year-old. "This year there wasn't enough...

Facebook announced on early Tuesday that the global outage was caused by “faulty” configuration changes on the backbone routers and that there was no evidence that user data was compromised. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that...

Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms suffered a worldwide outage Monday that has extended more than three hours. Facebook's internal systems used by employees also went down. Service has not yet been restored. The company did not say what might be causing the outage,...

Syria's main opposition body on Sunday condemned Arab governments for working to restore ties with Bashar Al-Assad's regime, on the same day that Jordan King Abdullah II spoke to the Syrian president on the telephone for the first time in over a decade. "Acceptance of this regime and the...