With his rickshaw sitting idle outside his one-room shack, Sailesh Kumar is one of the hundreds of millions of poor Indians hit the hardest by the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown. His family of six are stuck in their slum home outside New Delhi earning nothing and waiting desperately...

After weeks of disagreement -- especially between the United States and China -- the UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic for the first time. Led by Germany, nine of the council's 10 non-permanent members requested the closed-door meeting -- a video...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Brigadier General Yusef Ghanem Hussein has been appointed by Bashar al-Assad as the commander of the Air Force 24th Brigade in eastern Deir Ezzor province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. According to military sources, Hussein is considered as the...

Cuts to Tripoli’s water and power supply on Tuesday and Wednesday aggravated conditions for civilians after days of intensified fighting that have undermined preparations to cope with the novel coronavirus. Nader Mohamed, a taxi driver and father of three in Tripoli, said the situation...