(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's health ministry on Thursday has confirmed 11 new coronavirus cases, topping the total of infections to 242. At least seven people have died of COVID-19 in the war-torn country but experts doubt that the number is accurate, saying Syria is seen at high risk from...

Iranian state television has broadcast the suspected coerced confessions of at least 355 people over the last decade as a means to both suppress dissent and frighten activists in the Islamic Republic on behalf of security services, according to a report released Thursday. The study...

Asian stocks posted their biggest drop in eight sessions, bonds rose and the US dollar was firm Thursday as surging US coronavirus cases and an International Monetary Fund downgrade to economic projections knocked confidence in a recovery. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares...

The UN humanitarian chief warned that without massive financial support, Yemen will "fall off the cliff," with many more people starving to death, succumbing to COVID-19, dying of cholera and watching their children die because they haven’t been immunized for killer diseases. Mark Lowcock...