The Syrian Air Force has bought three VIP helicopters despite the ailing economy and miserable living conditions due to the nine-year-old war, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Bashar al-Assad has obtained the VIP version of the Russian  Ansat-UT helicopters, according to a...

The main defendant in the first trial on state-sponsored torture in Syria sought police protection in Germany because he felt threatened by Bashar al-Assad's intelligence service after he switched sides, a German court was told Friday. Anwar Raslan, 57, is in the docks charged with...

 Close to 20,000 people have died in hospital in the United Kingdom after testing positive for the new coronavirus, data showed on Friday, as Britain approached a milestone it had hoped never to reach. As the death toll rose relentlessly, speculation mounted that Prime Minister Boris...

World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative. “We are facing a common threat which we can only...