Aid groups working with the United Nations want the Security Council to urgently allow an Iraq border crossing into Syria to be used again for deliveries to help combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to a draft World Health Organization memo seen by the 15-member UN Security Council....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Regime forces and allied militias have killed 2,125 people since April 2019 in northwestern Syria, local monitoring group said Wednesday. The death toll has included 597 children and 35 humanitarian workers, according to the Syrian Response Coordinators...

Spain recorded its lowest daily coronavirus death tally in six weeks on Thursday, but data showing the economy shrank by the widest margin on record in the first three months of the year laid bare the heavy cost of measures to control the outbreak. Spain has had one of the world’s worst...

 (ZAMAN Al WASL)- Saad Mohamedd Al-Khidher, a young man who, in this time of crisis, has evoked his Syrian upbringing and determination to help fight the coronavirus pandemic as way to return the favor to the country that took him and his family in their forced exile.  In the...

Museums, exhibitions, memorials, zoos and botanical gardens in Germany can reopen in Germany, provided they can fulfill social distancing and hygiene requirements to minimise the risk of infection, German media cited news agency DPA as reporting. According to a government draft that they...

Japan is preparing to extend its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, originally set to end on May 6, for about a month, government sources told Reuters on Thursday, even as some other countries begin to reopen after strict lockdowns. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told...

Iran's health ministry said Thursday that 71 new deaths from the novel coronavirus took the country's overall toll past the 6,000 mark. "The number of deaths from this disease effectively crossed 6,000 today," ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in televised remarks. "Considering...

(ZAMAN Al WASL)- Syrian refugees in Germany have volunteered to help with the Covid-19 pandemic by sewing and distributing them in cooperation with German charity organizations and led by AWO, which commended their efforts and solidarity to protect the community and fight discrimination....

Lebanese politicians who have led their country into financial disaster are squabbling over who is to blame, stirring up old rivalries that may spell even deeper trouble ahead. Lebanon faces its gravest threat since the 1975-90 civil war as its currency sinks, inflation spirals and...

Oil prices jumped on Thursday, buoyed by signs that the U.S. crude glut is not growing as quickly as expected and that fuel demand battered by COVID-19 restrictions is starting to pick up. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 climbed to a high of $17.75 a barrel and were up...

Forces loyal to Libya’s renegade commander Khalifa Haftar on Thursday announced a unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan.  Ahmed Al-Mismari, a spokesperson for the Libyan National Army (LNA), said all military operations have been paused during the Muslim fasting month....

The U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday that More than 40 cases of COVID-19 and at least three deaths have been reported in Syria., signaling that "tragedy beckons" after nine years of war that has left the country’s health care system decimated. Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security...

Yemen reported multiple coronavirus infections and deaths linked to the disease for the first time Wednesday and an official in the southern port of Aden said the number of cases was very likely to increase in the coming days. The United Nations has said it fears the novel coronavirus could...

A researcher in a lab coat in Beijing holds up the hopes of humanity in his fingers: "Coronavac", an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus that has upended the world. Sinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed...

Germany has banned Iran-backed Hezbollah activity on its soil and designated it a terrorist organisation, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Police conducted early morning raids in Germany to detain suspected members of the group. Security officials believe up to 1,050 people in...

A large convoy of Iranian vessels were detected approaching Syria's Baniyas port on Tuesday, according to a maritime group which monitors the movement of oil tankers. They were allegedly carrying a staggering 6.8 million barrels of oil, the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) have...

 Two Coronavirus cases were confirmed in northeastern Hasakah province on Wednesday as the Syrian regime extended a nationwide curfew to stem the spread of coronavirus. The regime imposed the nationwide curfew just over a month ago after it announced its first official confirmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group has killed two regime forces in the southwestern province of Quneitra, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday.   The assailants have ambushed the soldiers near the village of al-Za'roura. At least 140,000 regime forces have been killed...

The United States will not allow Iran to purchase conventional arms after a U.N. prohibition on this expires in October, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. “We’re not going to let that happen,” Pompeo told reporters at a news briefing. “We will work with the U.N....

An airstrike by the United Arab Emirates on a biscuit factory south of Tripoli on Nov. 18, 2019, killed eight civilians and injured 27 others, according to Human Rights Watch. The rights group released a report Wednesday about the drone attack on the Al-Sunbulah biscuit factory in Wadi...