Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists say the exploitative "kafala" system remains in place. The economic crisis-hit Mediterranean country is home to around 250,000 migrants, mostly women from...

Syria's Agriculture Minister Mohamed Hassan Qatna said that   ongoing “rigorous” investigations are underway on the fires that broke out in northwestern Hama province. The minister's statement to Al-Watan daily came in response to claims that fires were contrived as...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 army forces from Bashar al-Assad's coastal region have been died of Coronavirus and airstrikes since August, pro-regime accounts said. The death toll has included 8 officers, four of them were top generals.   Activists said Maj. Gen...

Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that recent turmoil following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help Americans confront centuries of systemic racism, drawing a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump amid a reckoning that has galvanized the nation....