More than 224,000 people around the world have lost their lives from the novel coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university's study found 224,562 fatalities caused by COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, as...

A Syrian state-produced television series has drawn fire from activists and Syrian opposition figures, for using as a prop a photograph of a young woman believed to have been tortured and killed by Syrian regime security forces. The period of Ramadan is usually the peak time for TV...

A Turkish military cargo plane carrying medical supplies for use against the coronavirus pandemic departed on Tuesday for the US. "The loading process of the medical aid supplies to be delivered to the US by Turkish Armed Forces aircraft has been completed. Our aircraft carrying the medical...

Yemeni separatists early Sunday declared self-rule of the country's south as a peace deal with the government crumbled, complicating a long and separate conflict with Huthi rebels who control much of the north. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) accused the government of failing to...