(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.   The freed families headed their homes in the village of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge blaze ripped through a school building established by Jewish and Arab Israelis in the Greek island of Lesbos for Syrian children. According to reports by Israeli newspapers, the school administration described the fire as suspicious. The fire coincided with the...

Britain likely has between 5,000 and 10,000 people infected with coronavirus, the government’s chief scientific adviser said on Thursday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson stepped up the response to the outbreak. Stock markets tumbled across the world, with Britain’s FTSE 100 down 10.9%,...

Algerians are watching to see whether a global epidemic will do what the ruling authorities they describe as le pouvoir - the powers that be - have failed to achieve, and quell a year of mass protests. The street demonstrations in Algiers and other cities take place on Fridays and Tuesdays,...