Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 54, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state TV, adding the number of those infected had reached 978. “There were 385 new cases of infected people in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number to 978. The death toll...

An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted Fodil Boumala, a key figure in a protest movement that has rocked the country for over a year, his lawyer told AFP. "He has been acquitted. He will go home today," said Zoubida Assoul, a lawyer for the accused. The prosecution had sought a year in...

Syrian state media denied a report on Sunday that a government plane had been shot down and said instead that its army had downed a Turkish drone in the Idlib region of northwest Syria. Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency said a Syrian plane was shot down in the northwest, where the Syrian...

Syria’s army has declared the airspace over northwest Syria closed to planes and drones, pledging to down any aircraft that violates it, state media said on Sunday. “Any aircraft that violates our airspace will be dealt with as enemy aircraft that must be brought down,” state news...