Greece will move hundreds of migrants from a camp on the island of Lesbos to mainland facilities Sunday as part of efforts to ease overcrowding, police and government officials said. The European Union has asked Greece to move migrants most at risk of contracting the coronavirus from...

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne believes the Premier League season will be finished despite the coronavirus pandemic "because the financial aspect is far too important". "My feeling is that we may be able to train again within two weeks. The government wants to restart football...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said "enormous evidence" showed the new coronavirus originated in a lab in China, further fueling tensions with Beijing over its handling of the outbreak. Pompeo's comments came as Europe and parts of the United States prepared to cautiously lift...

Local sources revealed to Deir Ezzor 24 network, that Russian forces conducted a military patrol on the outskirts of Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, and that it is the first time for Russia to move militarily in the region. The sources said that the patrol drove near...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery during his almost three week absence from public life, South Korean news outlet Yonhap said citing a senior government official, as the two Koreas exchanged gunfire around the border on Sunday. The South Korean official declined to...

Paris St-Germain (PSG) star forward Neymar has thanked an 8-year-old Syrian child for his love and support as expressed with the help of Anadolu Agency. ''Hello, thank you for supporting me, my heart is with you and your family. God bless you, goodbye," football star Neymar said to Hamis el...

Targeting the militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan Army killed five Sudanese Janjaweed militants, the country’s military announced Sunday. The army carried out an airstrike on the Nesme region, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of the capital Tripoli, said a statement by the Libyan...

Sanctions-hit Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf Sunday said that security forces are arresting employees at his diversified companies in what he said were "mounting pressures" on him days after Syrian authorities asked him to repay hefty taxes. "Today pressures began in an unacceptable ways and...

Saudi shares slumped 6.8 percent as trading opened Sunday, a day after the finance minister announced "painful" measures to tackle the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost all the listed stocks on the Arab world's largest bourse were in the red just minutes after the start...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said mosques would reopen across large parts of the country Monday, after they were closed in early March amid the Middle East's deadliest novel coronavirus outbreak. Rouhani said 132 counties, around one third of the country's administrative divisions,...

Russia on Sunday reported a new record daily rise in coronavirus infections as the number of confirmed cases surged past 130,000. As some European countries were looking to gradually lift restrictions, officials in Moscow -- the epicentre of the contagion in Russia -- urged residents to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed in a cluster bomb explosion in southern Daraa city, activists said Saturday. A 4-year-old child passed away and six more people were wounded due to the blast in the Old City of Daraa. Activists say the bomb was from the regime army remnants...

Malls in the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi began reopening to a restricted number of customers this weekend as the UAE eases lockdown measures imposed more than a month ago to combat the novel coronavirus. Three Abu Dhabi malls reopened on Saturday at 30 percent customer capacity...

Bushy moustaches, thick Syrian accents, fistfights in 1930s Damascus and... medical masks? A parody of a popular Syrian television show is raising awareness on curbing the coronavirus outbreak in neighbouring Iraq. Artists in Iraq's southern port city of Basra have adapted the beloved...

Israel's top court will consider Sunday whether to block the coalition government agreed between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival-turned-partner Benny Gantz, a case that could force another election. Netanyahu, a right-wing premier in power since 2009, and the centrist...

It is not the first catastrophe they have faced. But while today's global pandemic bears no resemblance to Syria's almost decade-long civil war, some refugees believe their experience of violence and exile helps them deal with the anxiety sparked by the novel coronavirus. AFP...

North Korean troops fired multiple gunshots towards the South in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula on Sunday, prompting South Korean forces to fire back, Seoul said. The rare exchange of gunfire comes a day after North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong Un had made...

(EQTSAD)- The economic crises in the Gulf countries, as a result of oil prices fall due to the Coronavirus pandemic, looming that a large part of the Syrian workers will lose their jobs, which will definitely affect a wide segment of the interior Syrians, particularly families that depend on...

Iraq's revenues from oil exports fell by over 50% in April due to the drastic drop in global oil prices, authorities said on Saturday. Baghdad exported over 103 million barrels of crude oil in April, generating approximately $1.42 billion at an average of $14 per barrel, the Iraqi Oil...

Italy on Saturday reported 474 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 28,710, while active infections continued to drop. The data released by the Italian Civil Protection Department confirmed that the country overcame the peak of the emergency, as it prepares...