Europe's stock markets slid in early deals Friday as global novel coronavirus infections topped one million and the death toll surpassed 50,000. In initial deals, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of major blue-chip firms erased 1.3 percent to 5,410.95 points compared with Thursday's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-A local monitoring group in southern Daraa province said at least 37 civilians had been killed in March by regime forces and allied gunmen, amid high surge of assassination attempts tracking former rebel fighters. The rally of Ahrar Horan said the regime bombardment had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two regime forces were killed and ten wounded on Thursday in Turkish artillery fire in northeastern Syria, activists said. The artillery barrage hit the village of Al-Abboush near the border town of Ras Al-Ayn after clashes erupted between Turkish-backed Syrian National...

The United States economy will shrink 5.5% in 2020, the steepest drop since 1946, with a huge 38% contraction predicted for the second quarter, Morgan Stanley said on Friday in a new batch of forecasts on the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. The U.S. bank said it had cut its...