Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday claimed New Zealand had scored a significant victory against the spread of the coronavirus, as the country began a phased exit from lockdown. "There is no widespread, undetected community transmission in New Zealand," Ardern declared. "We have won...

More than four million students in Syria confined at home due to the coronavirus will not resume classes this year but will advance to the next grade, the government said Sunday. The decision was taken weeks after schools were closed in mid-March to combat the spread of the virus, leaving...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish drones bombed positions for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northern Idlib province, killing three fighters, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. The rare move was in retaliation to a missile attack by the former al-Qaeda group on Turkish tanks near the...

France reported a big fall in its coronavirus toll Sunday, with 242 deaths in 24 hours, a drop of more than a third on the previous day. The epidemic has now claimed 22,856 lives in the country since the beginning of March, health officials said. The number of deaths in hospitals -- 152...