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Spain: Real number of infections ‘beyond 3M’

Spain’s prime minister Friday said the real number of coronavirus infections in Spain is “beyond 3 million.”  Although the country has been detecting a record number of daily cases – nearly 21,000 on Thursday alone – Pedro Sanchez said the increase is due to more testing now...

US drone strike kills 23 jihadists in NW Syria

The US Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwest Syria near the border, killing 23 jihadists, according to a war monitor and Zaman al-Wasl sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the victims included five foreigners and six...

Iran slaps sanctions on US Iraq envoy in tit-for-tat move

Iran imposed sanctions on the US ambassador to Iraq Friday, citing "terrorist" acts against its interests, in a tit-for-tat move after Washington blacklisted Tehran's Baghdad envoy. Matthew Tueller and two other US diplomats in Iraq "have effectively engaged in organizing, financing,...

Two-decade court battle over West Bank area nears end

Khirbet Al-Majaz, a patch of desert at the end of a long, dusty trail in the West Bank, may not look like an area at the centre of a two-decade court battle. But after years of legal wrangling, the Palestinian Bedouins perched there on a rocky hill may be facing final expulsion if Israel's...