Egypt is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a second bundle of financial support after receiving nearly $2.8 billion in emergency financing, the central bank deputy governor said Wednesday. Asked about a Bloomberg News report that Egypt would seek a further $5 billion from...

President Donald Trump's aide and son in law Jared Kushner said he couldn't guarantee the US presidential election will take place on time, due to the coronavirus pandemic -- only to walk back his comment. The election is scheduled for November 3 by law and the White House has no authority...

FormerIsraeli army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, who spent nearly four decades in the military, will be nominated as Israel's next foreign minister, his Blue and White alliance said Wednesday. Ashkenazi held talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem ahead of his "appointment as...

Russia reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, continuing a grim trend that has seen the country register the world's second-highest number of infections. Health officials reported 10,028 new cases over the last 24 hours, bringing Russia's total number of infections to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior militant in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed in a landmine explosion in northern Aleppo province, Iran's news agency and activists said Tuesday. Abu Al-Fadhel Serlak was killed along with other pro-Iran fighters near Athariya area in the southeastern...

 Oil prices fell on Wednesday as potential OPEC+ plans to deepen supply cuts were overshadowed by demand concerns exacerbated by a possible second wave of coronavirus infections as countries ease lockdowns. Brent crude LCOc1 dropped 56 cents, or 1.9%, to $29.42 a barrel by 0855 GMT,...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak warned the U.K. is facing a significant recession after a report showed the economy shrank almost 6% in March. The sharp decline is only a small part of the damage of the coronavirus lockdown, which was in place for all of April and is set to endure...

The Taliban warned Wednesday it was ready to fight back after Afghan forces were ordered to resume strikes in response to a series of deadly attacks, further unravelling a fragile peace process. A brazen daylight assault on a maternity hospital in Kabul on Tuesday -- which killed at least...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel Wednesday for talks on regional security and the country's plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Pompeo was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and incoming defence minister Benny Gantz, a day before a unity...

Syria’s main opposition group selected Nasr Hariri to head the negotiating team at a new round of U.N.-backed peace talks with the Damascus government in Geneva next week, a spokesman told Reuters on Friday. The decision came at a summit in Riyadh where, a day before, the opposition...

Air elements of the Libyan army targeted the key Al-Watiya airbase occupied by forces loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Haftar three times in the past 24 hours.  Muhammed Kununu, the military spokesman for the government, said Tuesday that the airstrikes were carried out against...

 Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager during clashes in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel. The health ministry announced that Zaid Qaysia, 15, was "killed by a live bullet in the...

Russia and China Tuesday boycotted what Moscow called an "unacceptable" closed-door videoconference with the U.N. Security Council on chemical weapons in Syria. "Russia and China have empty tiles" on the screen, a Security Council member told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity....

America's top infectious diseases official has warned that ending lockdowns too quickly could trigger uncontrollable new coronavirus outbreaks, as the global death toll closes in on 300,000. The stark words from Anthony Fauci came as much of the United States and Europe press ahead with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Syrian military pilots returned from Iran last week to the Kuweires Airport College in Aleppo province after they had completed a full year of training in Iran as pilots and pilot trainers, on the Brazilian-made plane Embraer-Tucano-EMB-TUCANO, sources told Zaman al-Wasl....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have retaken control of four villages in eastern Deir Ezzor province after clashes with Daesh militants in the past 48 hours, pro regime media reported.   The clashes took place in the al-Beshri mountainous area west of Deir Ezzor city....

In a surprising turn of events, the coronavirus death toll in France again took a sharp tick upwards on the second day of relaxed measures known as deconfinement, said the Health Ministry.  On Tuesday there were 359 fatalities, and also a steep rise in cases of 96 over Monday. Deaths...

Saudi Arabia will enforce a 24-hour curfew across the kingdom during a 5-day holiday to celebrate Muslim Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said in a statement Tuesday, to stem the spread of coronavirus. Until then economic activities will...

Yemen's Saudi-backed government reported outbreaks of the new coronavirus in three more southern provinces Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in areas under its control to 65, with 10 deaths. The Aden-based government's coronavirus committee said nine new COVID-19 cases had been...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a more than $3 trillion coronavirus aid package Tuesday, encouraging Congress to "go big" with aid to cash-strapped states and struggling Americans. The Heroes Act provides nearly $1 trillion for states, cities and tribal governments to avert layoffs and...