(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...

(Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sugar production in Syria fell to less than a fifth this year compared to 4 years ago, 250 thousand tons of sugar beet were processed, it was the lowest in 50 years....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the United States wants to admit. Perched on Turkey's border, the city of about 60,000 has...

(Reuters) - American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey . The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the...