Algeria has sentenced three opposition activists to jail over Facebook posts, in what rights groups said Wednesday was the latest sign of increased repression after the coronavirus lockdown stifled a popular protest movement. Soheib Debaghi was sentenced in Algiers to one year in prison on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Crop fires have destroyed more than 1500 hectares in northeastern Syria, local activists said Wednesday. The massive fires flared in 12 areas in Hasakah and Deir Ezzor provinces as efforts failed by local farmers to extinguish the fire that hit the unharvested barley...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 100 bodies have been exhumed from a mass graves in eastern Raqqa province, the First Response Team said Tuesday. Yaser al-Khamis, head of the local rescue group, said the corpse toll of the new mass grave in Tel Zaidan is expected to reach a...

Hong Kong's political crisis returned to centre stage on Monday as clashes erupted in the legislature and a group of prominent pro-democracy activists were charged for taking part in last year's huge protests. Four months of calm imposed by mass arrests and the coronavirus pandemic has...