Clashes raged around a key northern Syrian town on Tuesday after ISIS launched a counter-attack to fend off a US-backed advance near the extremists' stronghold Raqa. Backed by air power from an international coalition bombing ISIS, the Syrian Democratic Forces are laying the groundwork for...

Syria has received 50,000 tons of Russian wheat as humanitarian aid, Syrian and Russian government sources said on Tuesday. The two cargoes arrived in March, they said. However, no Russian wheat from the commercial deals signed with state grain buyer Hoboob have arrived yet, the Syrian...

Hundreds of students returned Tuesday to the elite American University in Kabul seven months after militants stormed the campus -- including those wounded in the bloody assault that killed 16 people. Security has been increased at the campus in the Afghan capital after the attack last...

The president of the United States holds a trademark in Jordan for a Donald Trump casino, despite the fact that gambling is illegal in the kingdom. It is one of four he received before he ran for office, and suggests that the former casino executive may have had wider hopes for businesses across...