India banned incoming international flights on Thursday, restricted public gatherings and blocked roads to seal Kashmir after the insurgency-torn region reported its first coronavirus infection. Elsewhere in densely populated South Asia, Sri Lanka postponed parliamentary elections as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces thwarted regime army incursion into southern region of Idlib province on Thursday in a new breach to the two-week-old ceasefire, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. The National Army said the regime forces backed by Shiite militias launched...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One Turkish soldier was killed in northwestern province of Idlib, the governor’s office in Turkey’s central Sivas province said on Thursday, topping the death toll of Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib to 59 in the past five weeks. It did not provide additional...

Civil liberties activists asked Israel's Supreme Court Thursday to suspend cellphone monitoring put in place under emergency regulations to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Surveillance began this week after the government approved special orders that circumvented customary...