MEXICO CITY (AP) — An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent the train plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. Rescuers found four bodies inside a rail car that was dangling from the...

Recent weeks have seen a crescendo of rumors claiming that local, regional, and international support is growing to establish a Syrian Transitional Military Council (TMC). It would allegedly be led by defected Brigadier General Manaf Tlass, whose mandate would be to midwife the war-ravaged...

The low water level of the Euphrates River has triggered the farmers' concerns in northeastern Raqqa and Deir Ezzor provinces over the fate of summer crops and the water crisis in all.   Abdul Hadi al-Jaziri, a 45-year-old farmer, told Zaman al-Wasl that farmers' main trouble is...

Jordan reopened Monday two border posts closed nine months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic -- one with Saudi Arabia, the other with Syria -- the interior ministry said. But there are strict limits on the numbers allowed in each day and travellers are required to be in possession of...