Spain decided Saturday to follow Italy in declaring a nationwide lockdown to slow the accelerating spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Spanish media reported. Spain's decision came as European countries took ever more severe, though widely varying, measures to reduce contact between their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After six years in forced disappearance, the family Fadi Al-Nakdali has confirmed his death due to torture in the Syrian regime security chambers. Al-Nakdali’s brother-in-law and the human rights activist Mohamed Hindawi, said Al-Nakdali, like all his peers from...

At the once bustling hub of the largest anti-government protest movement in Iraq's modern history, crowds have dwindled, and donation boxes have sprouted up. Loudspeakers resound with calls by activists for funds to keep their hard-fought revolution alive. The six-month-old movement has...

U.S. President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency over the fast-spreading coronavirus on Friday, opening the door to more federal aid to combat a disease that has infected 138,000 people worldwide and left more than 5,000 dead. Trump, who some experts criticized for being slow...