JERUSALEM The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the already strenuous situation in occupied East Jerusalem in 2020, according to Palestinian officials, making it one of the most difficult years for the city since its occupation in 1967.  In separate interviews with Anadolu...

A bomb planted by YPG/PKK terrorists exploded inside a house in northwestern Syria on Thursday leaving two civilians dead. The explosion occurred in a village which is located on the frontline between the Syrian National Army (SNA) and YPG/PKK terrorist organization in Tel Abyad province....

Turkey and Israel, once allies, have had a bitter falling out in recent years. Ankara has repeatedly condemned Israel's occupation in the West Bank and its treatment of Palestinians. It has also criticised recent U.S.-brokered rapprochements between Israel and four Muslim countries....

South Korea has posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases, as outbreaks at a prison, nursing homes and churches continued to grow, prompting the health minister to say the country was at a “crossroads of the third wave”. It comes as more countries restricted entry from the...