(Zaman Al Wasl)- Landmines killed three people, including a US-backed fighter, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said Friday. A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed and others wounded in a landmind explosion in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor...

Italy on Friday reported 766 more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of fatalities to 14,681, still the highest in the world, but apparently confirming signs of a slowdown.  The continued slowdown in the rise of infections – down from the double-digit...

The WHO and IMF chiefs insisted Friday that saving lives was a "prerequisite" to saving livelihoods in the coronavirus pandemic -- a crisis they called "one of humanity's darkest hours". World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and International Monetary Fund...

Latest figures which show the spread of the coronavirus is slowing in Germany are a cause for "hope", Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but warned that it was too early to relax restrictions on public life. Germany has shut schools, banned public gatherings of more than two and imposed...