At least four displaced people, including two women were killed Wednesday in Russian air strikes hit Atareb town in northern Aleppo province, rescue workers told Zaman al-Wasl. The airstrikes and shelling came amid a regime offensive on the northwestern provinces of Idlib, the last...

The EU offered a pointedly warm welcome Wednesday to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is seeking to broaden international support for elections to be held in his country to vote President Nicolas Maduro out of power. Guaido is recognised as Venezuela's interim president by the...

Hong Kong reported its first suspected case of the new SARS-like virus Wednesday in a man who arrived in the city from Wuhan via the cross-border high-speed railway. Health secretary Sophia Chan said the 39-year-old man was "preliminarily positive", but a final test result would only be...

Iran will never seek nuclear weapons with or without a nuclear deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, calling on the European powers to avoid Washington's mistake of violating Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers. "We have never sought nuclear weapons ... With or...