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DAMASCUS, Aug 17- Syria has more than six months' worth of strategic wheat reserves, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister Abdullah al-Gharbi said on Thursday. While President Bashar al-Assad has scored vital military gains against rebels seeking to oust him in a six-year-old civil war he is under pressure to ensure supplies of strategic...
The fair is being held in an area few kilometers away from the rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus. According to state-run media, participants from 43 countries are taking part in the fair, which is expected to last for 10 days and promises to attract investors mainly from allies like Russia, China and Iran. Egypt, South Africa and Belarus are also taking part,...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon— The port of Tripoli in northern Lebanon wants the world to know it's ready for business. Lebanon, as Syria's neighbor, is in prime position to capture a share of that windfall and revive its own sluggish economy. Battles still rage in Syria's north and east, and in pockets around the capital, Damascus, but the survival of President Bashar Assad's...
The U.S. and NATO alliance are getting mixed signals from Turkey at a time when Russia is increasingly warming to Ankara.
French police arrested a man Wednesday in the search for a driver who slammed his BMW into soldiers in a Paris suburb Wednesday.
President Trump denies his New Jersey excursion is a "vacation," claiming on Twitter he is still making "meetings and calls."
Countries who previously did business with North Korea may be less inclined to make repeat purchases amid greater pressure to comply with U.N. sanctions.
Nicolas Maduro is building his brand of populism by celebrating each time the U.S. punishes officials for abuses, ProPublica reports.
AMMAN, July 30- Royal Jordanian Airlines said its losses widened by 69 percent in the first half, blaming higher oil prices and a sharp drop in air fares as it faced competition from low-cost carriers in the Gulf region. President and CEO Stefan Pichler said more work needed to be done as the carrier announced a net loss of 26.3 million dinars, widening from 15.5...
President Trump slammed The Washington Post, accusing it of "fabricating" facts about a report last week detailing his decision to cut off U.S. aid to rebels in Syria.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Trump and Putin may have met more than three times at the summit.
The battle against ISIS is going "very well" and the terrorist group is "falling fast," according to President Donald Trump.
Trump's desire to work with Russia dangerously conflicts with America's best interests, says Noah Rothman.
Jury selections today have moved beyond seeking the unbiased to favoring the uninformed, N.Y. Times reports.
The fight against ISIS has become a learning opportunity for the U.S. military as it looks to a future of a new kind of opponent.
ERBIL, Iraq, July 7- After almost nine months of fierce fighting, the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State is drawing to a bitter end in the ruins of the city's historic quarter, but the struggle for Iraq's future is far from over. But the fall of Mosul also exposes ethnic and sectarian fractures that have plagued Iraq for more than a decade.
A U.S. judge rejected Hawaii's bid to exempt grandparents from President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on Thursday.
Donald Trump said that the world must focus its efforts against "the threat from North Korea" in Warsaw, Poland.
The U.S. is prepared to discuss with Russia joint efforts to stabilize war-torn Syria, Secretary of State Tillerson said on Wednesday.
Qatar is unlikely to accede to 'humiliating demands by Saudi Arabia, former U.S. diplomat Theodore Kattouf says.
