Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the coronavirus by special disinfection tunnels that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow or meeting him in the Kremlin must pass through, his spokesman said Wednesday. One such special tunnel, manufactured by a Russian company...

An uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad was sentenced to four years in prison in France on Wednesday for illegally using Syrian state funds to build a French real estate empire. The anti-corruption groups that launched the legal proceedings against Rifaat Assad announced the decision...

Zaman Al-Wasl has obtained documents revealing a new identity of pro-Bashar al-Assad militant and security agent who applied for asylum in Germany after participating in cracking down the Syrian activists and leading most of them behind bars. Tariq Hassan Alour, originally from...

Turkey has launched Operation Claw-Tiger against terrorists in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry announced early Wednesday.  The ministry said on Twitter that Turkish commando forces are already in Iraq’s Haftanin region, adding the operation is taking place in order to...