The Syrian government has vastly overestimated the size of the country’s wheat crop, officials, traders and farmers told Reuters, indicating that a population that has endured unrelenting war could struggle to feed itself this year. A large part of Syria’s agricultural heartland in the...

Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of extremists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where Iraqi forces are battling the last ISIS group fighters. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Tamim walks past the body of an extremist half buried under the ruins of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former opposition head and moderate cleric Moaz al-Khatib has resigned from the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC) over discords related to reforms inside the key opposition group, sources said. Al-Khatib who was the first head of  the Syrian National...

As Britain gets to grips with another shock election result, in northern England pro-Brexit voters’ sympathy for the beleaguered Conservatives was in short supply. “I think we’re in a total mess,” said postman Eric Peters, 58, dashing through the city of Wakefield. “For me, I...