A Russian delegation returned to Turkey Monday for further talks over rising tensions in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, after an initial round last week failed to yield results, Turkey's foreign minister said. An airstrike in a nearby rebel-held region, meanwhile, killed nine people...

An Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza Monday seeking to ease tensions, a Hamas security source said, after Israel again attacked the enclave with air strikes in response to projectiles fired by militants. Egypt has long served as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist...

The number of deaths from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 902 on Monday after the hardest-hit province of Hubei reported 91 new fatalities. In its daily update, Hubei's health commission also confirmed another 2,618 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army has mobilized 10,000 fighters to join the Turkish army in the planned military operation in Idlib if regime forces refused to pull back from the newly-captured territory in the northern province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday....