At least 7 people, mostly women and children, were killed by a car bomb in the northeastern border town of Tal Abyad, activists said Tuesday. The Turkish-backed local council said at least 27 others were wounded by the blast. Most of the wounded people have been admitted to a Turkish...

 A roadside bombing on Wednesday killed one pro-regime fighter and wounded others in the eastern countryside of Hama province. The suspected-Daesh attack near Atharyia road has followed days of clashes between regime forces and the radical group in the central desert province of...

Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday as the U.S. government forecast higher fuel demand and lower production, overshadowing concerns that a surge in new coronavirus cases will hamper a demand recovery. “The market is popping because of the higher forecast demand, and jobs data,” said Phil...

One Lebanese woman asked for sugar, milk and soap in exchange for a child’s dress. Another wanted canned goods in return for gym equipment. A 65-year-old seamstress now exchanges her sewing services for food, because her clients can no longer afford to pay her. Bartering on Facebook has...

Some 400,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported over the weekend and the new coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. "The outbreak is accelerating and we've clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic," WHO director-general Tedros...

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has said coach Quique Setien will remain in charge of the team next season despite the team's fading La Liga title bid, adding that he does not regret sacking Ernesto Valverde in January. Valverde led Barca to successive title wins and his team were...

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television he has tested positive for coronavirus. “It came back positive,” a mask-wearing Bolsonaro told a hand-picked group of reporters on Tuesday lunchtime outside his official residence. “There’s no reason for fear....

The show will go on for the Venice Film Festival in September, but with a few modifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers said Tuesday that they are pushing forward with plans for its 77th installment, which will include a slightly reduced number of films in the main competition...

Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is set to return to Formula One with Renault in 2021, the BBC reported Tuesday. Alonso, who left Formula One at the end of 2018 after a final season with McLaren, won his championship titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006. The Spaniard, 38, has...

Young Palestinian soccer players, all amputees and many on crutches, were back on the field in Gaza Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory. Their coach said some of the 26 athletes lost limbs to Israeli gunfire in Gaza, where Hamas and Israel...

Brazil may be struggling in its battle against the coronavirus, but it is on the cutting edge of vaccine development with large-scale trials and the production of millions of doses on the horizon. Unlike Europe and China, COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly across the Latin American nation...

Germany and Belgium have asked the UN Security Council to vote to extend authorization for cross-border humanitarian aid in Syria despite a likely Russian veto, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The German-Belgian draft resolution would extend for a year an authorization for aid to move into...

Two people died and another three were injured Tuesday when a pre-dawn explosion rocked a factory south of Tehran, Iran's official IRNA agency reported, blaming human error. The blast in "a completely industrial zone" of Baqershahr, 23 kilometres (14 miles) from the capital, was caused by...

 Iran has recorded its highest number of deaths from COVID-19 within a 24-hour period, Health Ministry figures showed Tuesday. The 200 deaths reported Tuesday exceed the previous record from Sunday, when the ministry reported 163 deaths in a day. The Islamic Republic has recorded a...

With a new cabinet full of rightwing stalwarts, French President Emmanuel Macron is betting that his 2022 re-election hopes are best built on a conservative base that wants economic recovery to be the priority, analysts say. After his centrist party's rout in municipal elections last month...

A top Israeli health official resigned Tuesday, saying her guidance on combatting the coronavirus was being disregarded and the country's containment efforts were "disoriented" as it faced a surging caseload. The resignation of Siegal Sadetzki, the health ministry's director of public...

Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes amounting to war crimes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province, UN investigators said Tuesday in a report that also condemned attacks by jihadist fighters. They said that "indiscriminate bombardment" by...

The issue of deportation has arisen once again to haunt Syrian refugees in Denmark, with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), which is supposed to be responsible for receiving and integrating refugees, readjusting their mission to repatriate them using all means, including financial incentives. In...

Masirah Saqer could barely open her eyes, as she struggled to swallow the milk her grandmother attempted to feed her with a syringe. Nearby the cries of other malnourished children reverberated around the pink-walled hospital ward, a vivid reminder of the human cost of Yemen's devastating...

The January US drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a UN human rights investigator said Monday. The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack...