Libya’s internationally recognised government retook parts of southern Tripoli on Friday from the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) of Khalifa Haftar, whose 13-month campaign to seize the capital is under ever-greater pressure. Fighters for the Government of National Accord...

Lebanon’s powerful parliament speaker said on Friday it was time for government action to help citizens grappling with an economic crisis and this could not wait for the outcome of International Monetary Fund negotiations. Speaker Nabih Berri, head of the Shi’ite Amal Movement, said the...

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians, who became homeless due to aerial bombardments by the Bashar al-Assad regime, welcomed Eid al-Fitr in the shadow of homesickness, migration and high cost of living. Millions of Syrians, who have been internally displaced or became refugees since the civil...

Acclaimed Egyptian artist Adam Henein, who joined ancient pharaonic themes with sleek modernism in sculptures that often portrayed birds and other animals, died Friday, his family said. He was 91. Henein recently suffered from age-related health complications and was taken to a hospital in...

The United States called on the World Health Organization (WHO) Friday to begin work immediately on investigating the source of the novel coronavirus, as well as its handling of the response to the pandemic. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of being "China centric",...

A study of nearly 100,000 coronavirus patients has shown no benefit in treating them with anti-viral drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine and even increased the likelihood of them dying in hospital. Hydroxychloroquine is normally used to treat arthritis but pronouncement from public...

A Syrian doctor living in Germany is being investigated on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity at a military hospital in the war-torn country, a report in Spiegel magazine Friday said. Federal prosecutors suspect the man of beating and torturing men arrested by the Syrian...

Mosques will remain closed for prayers on the Eid Al-Fitr festival, Saudi and United Arab Emirates officials said on Friday, calling on the population to adhere to safety guidelines to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Eid, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of...

Oil fell 5% on Friday towards $34 a barrel as tensions rose between the United States and China, and doubts grew about the pace of demand recovery from the coronavirus crisis. China is set to impose new national security legislation on Hong Kong, prompting a warning from U.S. President...

 The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. "Aid agencies in Yemen are operating on the basis that community transmission is taking place...

Iran's supreme leader said it was an "Islamic duty" to fight for the "liberation of Palestine" in a landmark speech Friday amid rising tensions with regional arch-enemy Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at Western nations and their Arab "puppets" for supporting the Jewish state, in...

A Pakistani passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has crashed near the southern city of Karachi on Friday, the country's aviation authority said. Images shown on national television showed the Pakistan International Airlines flight had smashed into a residential area. "The...

The French government announced Friday that it will hold a final round of mayoral elections on June 28 after suspending voting due to the coronavirus, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said Friday, adding that the plans would go ahead providing there were minimal Covid-19 health risks....

A reformist Iranian lawmaker has stirred up a hornet’s nest by saying that Syria must reimburse Tehran for the whopping 20-30 billion dollars Iran has spent in the war-ravaged country. In a video interview with Etemad Online, the web portal of the reformist Etemad newspaper,...

Every day, I wake at the crack of dawn. I walk to my local hospital, put on my scrubs and my PPE. I sweat in it – mopping floors, disinfecting surfaces, cleaning everything that might be touched by a hand. I am aware that if I miss a spot, the virus might stay on the surface, and someone might...

China has launched its fiercest assault on Hong Kong's treasured autonomy with its move to impose a security law, pro-democracy campaigners said Friday as they vowed to take to the streets in protest. The proposal for the security law -- expected to ban treason, subversion and sedition --...

The sons of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday they "forgive" the killers of their father, an announcement analysts said effectively grants clemency to five convicted people on death row. Khashoggi -- a royal family insider turned critic -- was killed and dismembered at...

New Zealand's conservative opposition switched leaders Friday in a last-gasp bid to counter the record support Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is enjoying for containing the coronavirus. National Party lawmakers voted to ditch Simon Bridges after opinion polls predicted he was headed for a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many of the Syrian opposition believe that the Syrian regime and key ally Iran had paved the road for Daesh since 2003. A recent study by the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Researches and the Center for Democratic Republic Studies, addresses the relation...

Beijing's linking of its detention of two Canadians in China to the arrest of a Chinese executive in Vancouver shows it doesn't understand the meaning of an independent judiciary, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and...