Suspected Israeli air strikes in eastern Syria Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said. The raids against militant positions south of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian combatants, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Douma Underground” by director Tim Alsiofi won the best short documentary award and the Amnesty International award in the 17th edition of the IndieLisboa International Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. “In twelve painful minutes we feel that we were transported...

Oil-rich Gulf nations are relying on a well-worn playbook of spending less and borrowing more to get through the coronavirus crisis but with the outlook for oil clouded by uncertainty the strategy is riskier than before. Previous bouts of belt-tightening have relied on rebounding oil prices...

Japan's ruling party on Monday elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader, making him all but certain to replace Shinzo Abe as the country's next prime minister. Suga easily won the ballot, taking 377 of a total of 534 valid votes from Liberal Democratic Party...