Thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of the Moroccan capital Sunday to protest against a new US Middle East peace plan which the Palestinians say favours Israel. Carrying Palestinian flags, the demonstrators, including local politicians and trade unionists, marched in Rabat...

A U.S. envoy warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washington’s consent, pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultra-nationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan,...

Israel on Sunday imposed a ban on Palestinian agricultural exports, in a move the Palestinians blasted as a "dangerous" escalation in a five-month trade war. "Starting from today... export abroad of Palestinian agricultural product through the Allenby crossing will not be allowed," COGAT,...

Greece will only grant refugee protection for three years as it struggles to integrate foreigners, the conservative government's migration minister Notis Mitarachi said in remarks published Sunday. Greece last year was the first EU port of entry for migrants and has struggled to manage the...

Cameroon voted Sunday in polls overshadowed by a partial opposition boycott and separatist violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Elections for the central African country's legislature and local councils are taking place for the first time in seven years, after two...

A leading member of the Pakistan Taliban has escaped custody more than two years after surrendering to authorities, a senior security official said Sunday. The confirmation comes days after Ehsanullah Ehsan -- the former spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- released an...

Thousands of people stranded aboard a cruise ship in Hong Kong for five days were allowed to disembark Sunday after its 1,800 crew tested negative for the deadly new coronavirus. Health authorities in the Asian financial hub said the crew and a similar number of passengers had been released...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian artist Saja Jaana believes that her fine art can reflects not only her refuge journey from Aleppo to Turkey but also the suffering of most Syrians. ‘I will not accept that my harsh experience with asylum go unnoticed, I will leave my mark in every...

A Thai soldier who killed at least 26 people, most of them in a shopping mall in the northeast of the country, was angry over a land deal involving a relative of his commanding office, officials said on Sunday. Thai security forces shot and killed the rogue soldier after an overnight...

- Iraq’s Basra Oil Co will cut crude oil output at the Nahr Bin Omar field to a minimum because of pollution and gas emissions, state news agency reported on Sunday. The company’s Director General Ihsan Abduljabbar said: “Nahr Bin Omar oilfield is considered one of the most controversial...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 812, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) said Saturday Authorities said 37,198 confirmed cases have been reported and 89 people have died and more than 2,600 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours....

Two American troops were killed and six others wounded when an Afghan soldier armed with a machine gun opened fire, the US military confirmed Sunday. The deaths come at a sensitive time in the 18-year-old war, with President Donald Trump eager to bring troops home and end the longest...

Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch of a new scientific observation satellite scheduled within hours, the country's telecommunications minister said. The United States has raised concerns in the past about Iran's satellite programme, describing the launch of a carrier rocket in...

  (EQTSAD)- A 65-million-euro contract with the Iranian ArdMachine company to construct five wheat flour mills in Syria, come to surface over low quality standards as first mill got out of service.  The first mill in Umm al-Zaytun town in southern Sweida province was launched...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Coronavirus will have a major impact on the Syrian economy amid cut in the Chinese production and exports, according to Syrian business portal. Majed Sharaf, the director of Al Joudeh Group for Studies and Consultation, told  Al-Iqtisadi that the Syrian economy may...

The incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set to sweep polls Saturday in the assembly election in India’s national capital city of Delhi, according to exit polls. The exit polls conducted by different TV channels have given clear majority to the AAP, led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,...

 Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that foreign states, particularly France, had expressed a desire to help his country emerge from a severe economic crisis. As Lebanon grapples with its worst economic and financial strains in decades, foreign donors have said they will...

An army soldier in Thailand on Saturday killed at least 12 people and injured many others in a shooting spree streamed live on social media, local media reported. The incident happened at Surathampithak military camp in the northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province when the soldier,...

South Africa aims to free up over a billion dollars in stalled weapons sales, including to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, by amending a document at the heart of an export row, a senior arms control official told Reuters. Local defence firms have lobbied the government for months to...

Turkey strongly condemned comments Saturday by the leader of breakaway northern Cyprus, Mustafa Akinci, who said the prospect of annexation by Ankara was "horrible". Akinci is president of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, only recognised by Ankara. In an interview...