Apple announced on Saturday the closure of its stores, corporate offices and contact centres in mainland China until February 9 due to the new coronavirus epidemic. The virus has prompted the government extend the Lunar New Year holiday through this weekend in a bid to contain its spread,...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The French authorities have arrested the former spokesman for the Jaysh al-Islam group in Marseille over torture and war crimes charges, judicial sources told Le Figaro on Friday. Majdi Mustafa Ne’ma (nom de guerre: Islam Alloush), 32, who was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army captured three villages from Russian-backed regime forces in the eastern region of Aleppo province, following surprise attacks in east and west Aleppo killed at least 30 elite troops and destroyed 7 tanks, rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl...

China has flown two planeloads of its citizens back home to Hubei, the locked-down province at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak where they were greeted by authorities in full-body protective suits. A Xiamen Airlines charter flight from Bangkok touched down late Friday in...