The government order on the night of March 24, 2020, was abrupt but clear: In four hours, India and its 1.4 billion people would be locked down entirely because of the coronavirus. As the clock struck midnight, the world's second-most populous country came to a screeching halt,...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cargo container ship that's among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The...

Airstrikes in northwest Syria near the Turkish border that killed a person and set afire trucks used to distribute aid targeted areas considered the safest in the rebel-held region, a top U.N. official said Monday. The strikes on several locations a day earlier angered Turkey, prompting...

A coronavirus vaccination campaign is expected to start in Syria in April when the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to oversee the inoculation of 20% of the population by 2021’s end, it said Tuesday. The announcement came amid a sharp increase in cases in government-held parts of...

Three were gunned down while putting in a day's work at a Colorado supermarket. Another was a police officer who raced in to try to rescue them and others from the attack that left 10 dead. A picture of the victims of Monday's shooting began to emerge a day later, when the suspect in...

Under Bashar al-Assad’s rule, age is just a number that does not exempt anyone from being accused of terrorism, the regime’s favorite strategy to use against anyone who opposes it. The family of Dr. Rania Al-Abbasi suffered a similar fate, when she was arrested 8 years ago with her husband...

Zaman al-Wasl special reports on pro-regime militants in Europe and Syrian war crimes were enrolled by three human rights organizations who filed criminal complaints on March 2 with German's federal courts and in France about the use of chemical weapons specifically against civilians in...

A report by Amnesty International has documented alleged violations committed by mostly Lebanese military intelligence against Syrian detainees including fair trial violations, as well as torture. Detainees described being beaten with metal sticks, electric cables and plastic pipes as...

Children accounted for a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen's grinding war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government, a child relief agency said Tuesday. More than 2,300 children were killed between 2018 and 2020, Save...

Israelis began voting on Tuesday in the country's fourth parliamentary election in two years — a highly charged referendum on the divisive rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Opinion polls forecast a tight race between those who support Israel's longest-serving premier and those...

Two Yemeni men who allege their relatives were killed in an American drone strike have appealed their case to Germany's highest court, urging a ban on the U.S. military's use of a base southwest of Frankfurt to help control such attacks, their attorneys said Tuesday. The appeal was filed...

A road accident in southeastern Iran on Tuesday killed at least 14 people, including eight children, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported. There were no details as to what caused the accident. The crash involved three cars, the report said, and also left 11 people injured....

The Biden administration is mulling over America’s role in Syria’s ongoing conflict as the U.S. tries to break away from Middle East wars, but Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat already has been busy on the ground, trying to win support for a Syria approach that could establish Russia as a broker...

Nearly 43,000 foreign men, women, and children linked to ISIS remain detained in inhuman or degrading conditions by regional authorities in northeast Syria, two years after they were rounded up during the fall of the Islamic State “caliphate,” often with the explicit or implicit consent of...

Hassan Suleiman Al-Khater, Syrian refugee in Germany, has won a membership in the Foreigners' Advisory Council, Ausländerbeirat, in the city of Kassel. Al-Khater, originally from the city of Al-Mayadin in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, moved to Germany as a refugee in mid-2015 and...

Turkey has asked for Russia’s help in shielding northwestern Syria following mounting airstrikes in the area, which is home to 4 million people.  The attacks are hitting civilian targets like hospitals as well as fuel facilities, which are vital for the infrastructure that Turkey...

The Syrian government’s failure to fairly and adequately address a bread crisis brought on by a decade of armed conflict is forcing millions of Syrians to go hungry, Human Rights Watch said Monday. A deepening economic crisis, coupled with the significant destruction of infrastructure...

Five people are feared dead and at least 20,000 Rohingya have fled a huge blaze engulfing shanty homes at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday, in the third fire to hit the settlements in four days. Nearly one million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar – many...

At least four civilians, including two children, were killed in an explosion in northern Syria, local medical sources said on Monday. An explosion hit the Ras al-Ayn district, near the Turkey-Syria border, injuring nine others, health officials said. The injured were taken to a...

Assad has reappointed Maj. Gen. Hassan Ali as Air Force Commander after former Air Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Balloul, was once again retired. On October 23, 2020, The Syrian regime appointed Ali Air Force Commander for the first time, succeeding Major General Ahmed Balloul, who...