The European Central Bank on Tuesday announced an "unprecedented" easing of collateral requirements in a bid to boost bank lending during the coronavirus crisis. The package of measures aims to "mitigate the tightening of financial conditions across the euro area" and includes the use of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Torture footage of kidnapped citizens from the southern Daraa province has sparked the residents' anger who believe that the state of civil peace with neighboring Sweida province is fraught.  Activists said an armed group operating in the adjacent...

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned the heavy shelling of Tripoli's Al Khadra General Hospital at a time when people need "functioning medical facilities," saying it was a "clear violation of international law." Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of...

Squatting with other day labourers under a bridge in Cairo, 48-year-old Yasser Nagi says he has waited in vain for two weeks for work on a construction site so he can feed his family. Egypt, like other countries, has been hit hard by the spread of the coronavirus, which has wiped out its...