Barcelona captain Lionel Messi reported for training Monday for the first time since requesting to leave the club last month. Messi had failed to turn up to the club's tests for COVID-19 eight days ago and been absent from all subsequent sessions ahead of the new campaign after giving the...

The Syrian Electricity Company has so far fixed 107 power transmission centers in Syria's Aleppo province in 2020, state news agency SANA reported on Sunday. Another 1,250 centers had been fixed in Aleppo between 2016 and 2019, said the report. Citing Muhammad Saleh, the chief...

Annual trade between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is expected to reach $4 billion, an Israeli minister said Monday. Israel and the UAE announced in August they would normalize diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by Washington. The UAE has since announced it was scrapping an...

Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day they were supposed to reopen after summer, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. The new measures, which include restrictions on movement and a night-time curfew, would be in place for two weeks in the...