A group of Palestinian cyclists say they were attacked by Israelis in the occupied West Bank after a popular trail app landed them on a remote path dotted with Jewish settlements. Avid cyclist Amer Kurdi set out Saturday with his brother and three others on what was supposed to be an...

 Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by eight percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears to have a significant advantage among voters who are undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. The July 15-21...

When Kapil left his Nepali village for an airport job packing cargo in the United Arab Emirates, he thought he was securing a future for himself and his family. But less than a year after arriving in the Middle East trade and tourism hub, he questions whether it was the right decision after...

The coronavirus death toll in the United States has spiked again with Donald Trump conceding the pandemic crisis will get worse, as record infections in Australia underscored second-wave dilemmas globally. Nearly 15 million cases have been confirmed and 615,000 lives lost since the virus...

Acute food insecurity is forecast to rise sharply in war-ravaged Yemen over a combination of factors exacerbated by the coronavirus, a report by several UN agencies said Wednesday. The report, which covers only the southern parts of Yemen, forecasts that the number of people "facing high...

 Three Syrian doctors were tested positive for coronavirus in Damascus, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University said Wednesday. Dr. Naboug Al-Awa said the three cases were recorded among the internship doctors in the university hospital. In the...

 Three Military Intelligence operators were killed on Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in southern Daraa province. The IED attack rocked a bastion for a militia run by the military Intelligence Division, according to Zaman al Wasl reporter. The attack enrolls in a...

Lebanon's hospitals, long considered among the best in the Middle East, are cracking under the country's financial crisis, struggling to pay staff, keep equipment running or even stay open amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Private hospitals, the engine of the health system, warn they may...

Saudi King Salman held a cabinet meeting via video call from hospital in the capital Riyadh Tuesday, a day after the 84-year-old monarch was admitted with what state media said was inflammation of the gall bladder. Three Saudi sources had previously told Reuters that the king was in stable...

Mexico on Tuesday passed 40,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic as the country, which has the fourth-highest Covid-19 death toll in the world, struggles to contain the disease. A daily technical report recorded a total of 40,400 deaths from the virus, after adding 915 more...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkish forces, which have carried out several incursions into northern Syria since 2016, would remain in the country until Syrians can live in freedom and safety. “Nowadays they are holding an election, a so-called election,” Erdogan said...

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard warned his side will have to make huge strides to challenge Liverpool for the Premier League title next year, despite already making big moves in the transfer market. Lampard's men travel to the champions on Wednesday hoping to get the win they need to...

The spread of COVID-19 in post-lockdown Spain continues to increase unabated, with the Ministry of Health registering 1,362 new cases on Tuesday. In the last week, the country has registered 8,754 new COVID-19 infections -- the highest weekly rate since the Ministry of Health changed its...

Syria's ruling Baath party and its allies have won a majority in parliamentary elections, results announced Tuesday by the electoral commission showed. President Bashar al-Assad's party and allies took 177 seats out of 250 in Sunday's polls, the third such elections since the start of the...

Iran recorded 229 fatalities from the coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest single-day death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in mid-February. Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari said 2,625 additional cases were registered over the past 24 hours, bringing the...

Those seeking a military solution in Libya will be frustrated, as only a political solution will work, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday in the West African country of Niger. "The only solution in Libya is a political solution. We've been saying the same thing since the beginning,”...

A pioneering academic at Lebanon's most distinguished university, Charlotte Karam has enjoyed professional success that has made her decision to leave the country all the more heart-wrenching. An associate professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB), she has founded a centre to...

A Palestinian man found guilty of fatally stabbing an American-Israeli settler in a 2018 attack was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday by an Israeli military court. Khalil Jabarin, 19, was a minor when he stabbed US-born Ari Fuld at a mall near a West Bank settlement on Sept.16, 2018....

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a "serious funding gap" to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. The $1.75 million raised so far will only last for a few more weeks, the WHO warned, adding that the...

Apple pledged Tuesday to be carbon neutral across its entire business, including its manufacturing supply chain, by 2030, in a stepped up push to fight climate change. The tech giant, which is already carbon neutral for its corporate operations, said the move would mean no climate impact...