An air defense system at Syria’s Hmeimim air base has downed two drones near the facility, Syria’s Ikhbariya state TV reported on Monday, citing its correspondent. It gave no further details. The air base is currently operated by Russia, which intervened in Syria’s war in 2015 in...

China accused the United States on Monday of whipping up panic over a fast-spreading coronavirus with travel restrictions and evacuations as Chinese stocks plunged on the first day back from the extended Lunar New Year holiday. The death toll in China from the newly identified virus, which...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Monday that the spread of China's new coronavirus had hit oil demand and called for an effort to stabilise oil prices, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported. The minister also said Iran would agree to an earlier OPEC meeting if the rest of the...

China's death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360 on Monday to surpass the number of fatalities of its SARS crisis two decades ago, with dozens of people dying in the epicentre's quarantined ground-zero. The 57 confirmed new deaths was the single-biggest increase since the virus...