Britain's Olympic chief has told AFP the staging of the Tokyo Games in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has proved the doubters wrong while a former IOC executive claims it was a "miracle". The first Olympics ever to be postponed took place a year late and in stadiums where spectators...

Myanmar protesters on Sunday marked the anniversary of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that brought Aung San Suu Kyi to prominence, with flash mobs and marches of defiance against the ruling junta. The country has been in turmoil since the generals launched their February putsch and subsequent...

It has been a year since Zaman al-Wasl published an exclusive report revealing the crimes of Mouwafak al-Al-Dawah, the Syrian-Palestinian militant who was detained by the German police in Berlin on Wednesday.   The prosecutors said al-Dawah is suspected of firing a grenade into a...

 The Jordanian military on Saturday said it thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs and weapons into the country from neighboring Syria, killing one smuggler and wounding several others. The military said in a statement it seized a “large quantity” of narcotics as well as ammunition...