A Katyusha rocket fell in the vicinity of Baghdad airport but caused no casualties, Iraq state news agency INA said Thursday, the second such attack on the airport this week. On Sunday, three Katyusha rockets landed within the perimeter of the airport. One of them landed on an airport...

AstraZeneca, the British pharmaceutical company, said on Thursday it was still possible for its coronavirus vaccine to be available at the end of this year or the beginning of 2021. The claim was made by Pascal Soriot, the company’s chief executive, at a media event. It came after...

A huge fire raged in Beirut port on Thursday, AFP correspondents said, sparking alarm among Lebanese still reeling from a devastating dockside explosion that disfigured the capital last month. Thick black columns of smoke rose into the sky, as the army said the blaze had engulfed a...

Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos were camping on roadsides on Thursday after the country's largest camp burnt down, with officials racing to locate shelter and avert a health crisis. Desperate families, many with young children, spent a second night in the open,...

A prominent human rights organization Thursday accused Libyan armed groups linked to the Tripoli-based government of using heavy weapons to disperse anti-corruption rallies last month in the capital and of detaining, torturing and forcibly disappearing protesters. Between Aug. 23-29, Libyan...

 Coronavirus cases in the wider Middle East from Morocco to Pakistan have topped two million, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The caseload for the 21 countries has more than doubled since July 1, the UN agency said. Regional director Ahmed Mandhari warned that even...

Palestinian grape farmers are boasting a bumper crop this year, helped in part by coronavirus lockdowns that gave many of them more time to till their vines in the occupied West Bank. But the pandemic's economic ravages have also slashed sales of the fruit, depressing the hilly breadbasket...

A summit of seven European Union member states on the Mediterranean due to take place Thursday will push for a common EU position regarding Turkey, said French President Emmanuel Macron, host of the gathering. Relations between the EU and Turkey are badly strained on a number of issues,...

Yemen's Houthis carried out an attack on an "important target" in the Saudi capital Riyadh using a ballistic missile and four drones, a spokesman for the Iran-aligned group said on Twitter Thursday.

A brigadier General was killed Thursday by unknown gunmen in southern Daraa province, following a series of snap attacks against regime army personnels and allied militants, activists told Zaman al -Wasl. The attack took place near the town of Busra al-Harir in the eastern countryside...

A Turkish brigadier general who was on duty in the Idlib province of Syria died after a heart attack on Sept. 9, the country’s Defense Ministry announced in a written statement.  “Sezgin Erdoğan was immediately taken to hospital, however, despite all efforts, he became a martyr,”...

India on Thursday recorded its biggest one-day COVID-19 case rise yet, with nearly 96,000 fresh cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total number to date to 4.4 million. Indian Health Ministry figures Thursday morning showed that 95,735 new cases and 1,172 deaths were recorded in the...

Oil prices slid on Thursday after data showed U.S. crude stockpiles unexpectedly rose last week, stoking concern about a sluggish recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus cases continue to surge in many countries. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures fell 24 cents, or 0.63%,...

The cat-and-mouse campaigning by Donald Trump and Joe Biden has led the president and his Democratic challenger to the same locations, sometimes on the same day, while displaying radically different styles as they court American voters. As the candidates criss-cross the battleground states...

Millions of Italian pupils head back to the classroom next week after six months at home, confronting a new reality of outdoor lessons, coronavirus "isolation rooms" and even a possible ban on singing. While some in the north of the country already returned this week, the majority of...

In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. "We're the last family to be working in glass blowing in Damascus. I'm scared the profession will disappear," said...

The coronavirus has upended everyday life in the six months since the crisis was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). While our understanding of the new respiratory disease has steadily increased since it was first detected in China last year, what lies ahead over the...

Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood on Wednesday, but failed to persuade the Arab League to condemn last month’s normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. At a video conference of foreign ministers, the Palestinian leadership...

Two Lebanese political parties allied with Hezbollah said on Wednesday they would not be swayed by U.S. sanctions imposed on its members, with the Shi’ite Muslim Amal group saying Washington’s move was like targeting the whole nation. The United States expanded sanctions related to Lebanon...

 Oil futures on Wednesday clawed back some of the losses they sustained in the previous session, but a rebound in COVID-19 cases in some countries undermined hopes for a steady recovery in global demand. Brent crude LCOc1 rose $1.21, or 3%, to $40.99 a barrel by 12:56 p.m. EDT (1656...