Massive forest fires in war-torn Syria this week have killed at least two people and burned swaths of land, state media and officials said, as blazes also hit neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters...

Israelis kept up weekly protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, defying lockdown restrictions imposed by authorities aimed at stemming a surge in coronavirus cases. The parliament in Israel, which currently has one of the world's highest Covid-19 infection rates per...

Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas said Saturday that a Formula One Grand Prix no longer needs to be held over three-day weekends. The two Mercedes drivers, who locked out the front row for Sunday's Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, were responding to questions on...

Mask wearing has become mandatory in public in the Iranian capital and violators will be fined, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday as the country battles a third wave of coronavirus infections. The daily death toll from COVID-19 reached a record of 239 this week in Iran, the...