The European Commission will on Wednesday consider how to craft a plan to ease the bloc out of a virus lockdown that has dealt a body blow to the economies of EU members. Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will hold an "orientation debate" with commissioners by videoconference, after...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Tuesday have hit Sarmin town with heavy artillery fire near a Turkish observation point, such a provocation may undermine the fragile ceasefire reached last March to end bloodshed in northern Idlib province.  According to...

A young Syrian girl died in Lebanon after she was reportedly beaten by her father, security forces said Tuesday. The girl aged around six was dead on arrival at a hospital in the northern city of Tripoli in the early hours of Tuesday, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) reported....

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...