The United States Wednesday hit back at a UN women's rights panel that said some US states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of "an assumed right to abortion." "The United States is disappointed by and categorically rejects...

Russian mass media reported that scientists of the Institute of physical Culture History of the Russian Academy of Sciences ended work with a three-dimensional model of the Syrian city of Palmyra, listed on UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, claiming that this is “a prelude to the...

A 61-year-old man has died in the Gaza Strip after contracting the coronavirus, Palestinian authorities said Wednesday as they clamped down on an outbreak of the pandemic in the enclave. The fatality had suffered previous illnesses and had been on a respirator, the Health Ministry said.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish forces have arrested 15 people in eastern Raqqa province in a campaign tracking young people who escaped the military conscription, local activists said Wednesday.   The Syrian Democratic Forces campaign have arrested the young men at a checkpoint...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday warned Turkey would make "no concessions" in the eastern Mediterranean and told Greece to avoid taking steps that could lead to its "ruin." "We don't have our eye on someone else's territory, sovereignty and interests, but we will make no concessions...

The novel coronavirus has claimed 1,271 more lives in Brazil and 650 in Mexico over the past 24 hours, according to health authorities Wednesday. In Brazil, the world’s second worst-hit country after the US, the death toll climbed to 116,580, while the number of cases surged to nearly 3.67...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold closed-door meetings Wednesday with Bahrain's royal family and top officials in the United Arab Emirates amid the Trump administration's push for Arab nations to recognize Israel. Pompeo already traveled to Israel and Sudan on this trip through...

Ahmed Mansour and his colleagues worked eight months without pay in a health center in a Yemeni displacement camp out of concern for their patients. But this month they closed its doors. "Enough is enough now, we can't go on," said administrative worker Mansour, who financially supports his...

 In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile US administration, a more self-assured Israel or a more ambivalent international community. But even as their hopes for statehood have never seemed so dim, there's no indication their aging...

The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the US and other donors goes to international aid groups instead of local ones. Now local aid workers are exposed on the...

Lebanon Tuesday rejected an Israeli call to reform a UN peacekeeping force patrolling the border between the two countries days before a UN Security Council vote to renew its mandate. Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war, and the United Nations force, UNIFIL, is tasked with...

The president of the UN Security Council Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, a move that drew an angry rebuke from the US ambassador who accused opponents of supporting "terrorists." Indonesia’s ambassador to the UN, Dian Triansyah...

Lebanon's leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice, France's foreign minister said on Tuesday. "The catastrophe should not be used as a pretext to obscure the...

Israel unveiled detailed images Tuesday taken by a new reconnaissance satellite over the Roman ruins of Palmyra in neighboring Syria, an Iranian ally regularly targeted by Israeli air strikes. The images are the first to be made public since the Ofek 16 satellite was launched in July, with...

The defense ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Israel spoke via telephone Tuesday focusing on their countries' move to normalise ties, state media reported. Officials from the UAE and the Jewish state have increased contacts since the announcement earlier this month that they would...

Harry Maguire was Tuesday named in England's squad for their Nations League matches against Iceland and Denmark despite the Manchester United captain's arrest on assault charges in Greece. The defender, 27, was arrested late Thursday after a fight with another group at a nightclub in...

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp has praised his Bayern Munich counterpart Hansi Flick following the Germans' Champions League victory Sunday that completed a treble-winning season. Bayern beat Paris St Germain 1-0 in Lisbon to add the Champions League trophy to their German league and Cup...

 Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tuesday that he was not mandated to normalize ties with Israel and the issue should not be linked to Sudan's removal from a US state sponsors of terrorism list. Pompeo arrived from Israel on what he said was...

 If the United States wants an agreement with Iran, it must first come back to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with six powers that Washington abandoned two years ago, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday. "Washington's maximum pressure policy on Iran has failed 100%...If...

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging worldwide, but fresh World Health Organization data indicates its pace is easing in most regions, with the biggest slowdown seen in the hard-hit Americas. More than 1.7 million new coronavirus cases and some 39,000 new deaths were recorded last week,...