Thousands of Israelis demonstrated Saturday to protest a deal struck earlier this week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and parliament speaker Benny Gantz to form a unity government. The protesters rallied in the coastal city of Tel Aviv to denounce Monday's deal as...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will present the government's plan to unwind the country's coronavirus lockdown to parliament on Tuesday, followed by a debate and vote, his office said in a statement. The lockdown ordered by President Emmanuel Macron to slow the spread of the virus...

Global deaths linked to the coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday, while confirmed cases of the virus are expected to hit 3 million in coming days, according to a Reuters tally. More than half of the fatalities have been reported by the United States, Spain and Italy. The first...

As Russian maestro Valery Gergiev strolled onstage amid the ruins of Palmyra in 2016, few were in any doubt how much of a PR coup the orchestral concert was for Russia. Moscow had helped recapture a historic site, ravaged by ISIS, but more importantly, they had beaten the Iranians to...

The families of people missing in Syria’s notorious prison system say they fear they will never see their loved ones again due to the spread of coronavirus, as a landmark trial over state-sponsored torture gets under way. It is estimated that anywhere between 75,000 and over 200,000...

Spain's daily virus toll rose slightly Saturday with 378 people dying, the government said a day after the country registered its lowest number of fatalities in four weeks. The number was slightly higher than Friday's figure of 367, hiking the overall death toll in Spain to 22,902, the...

Britain could hit the grim milestone of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths later Saturday, when the daily count is added to the current toll of 19,506 people who tested positive for the new coronavirus and died in hospital. As the death toll rises, the government is facing growing criticism over...

Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 76 during the last 24 hours to reach a total of 5,650, a Health Ministry spokesman said on state TV Saturday. The total number of people diagnosed with the virus is 89,328, of whom 3,096 are in a critical condition, the spokesman...

 The Turkish government's steps to support the economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic have reached a value of 200 billion lira ($28.7 billion), Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said Saturday. President Tayyip Erdogan initially announced a 100 billion lira package to support...

The mix of fury and disappointment among residents was palpable inside a cafe in the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin after the government replaced the popular mayor with a trustee. One year on from local elections, 40 out of 65 municipalities won by the pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

Italy's economically punishing coronavirus lockdown, combined with big-spend stimulus packages to support families and firms, will push public debt and deficit to dizzying heights, the government said Friday. The cabinet approved the spring budget document (DEF), which forecast that the...

The English Premier League are eyeing a resumption of the season on June 8, behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, and reaching a climax on July 27, according to The Times. The paper claims football chiefs, along with other sports governing bodies, have been holding talks...

The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8...

  (Zaman Al Wasl) - The Lebanese General Security said a 17-year-old Syrian refugee was died in prison due to a heart attack as activists voiced doubts about the death reason.    The body of Mohamed Ahmed Al-Dahham was handed over to his relatives for burial on Friday....

Dozens of Pakistani doctors and nurses have launched a hunger strike demanding adequate protective equipment for frontline staff treating coronavirus patients, the lead organiser of the protest said Saturday. Health workers have complained for weeks that the country's hospitals are...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has released 24 prisoners from eastern Deir Ezzor province after being held for years in the notorious Sednaya prison, activists said Saturday. Pro-regime media accounts said the release of opposition prisoners was a goodwill gesture on the first day...

Stuck in their Tirana flat under a coronavirus lockdown, 81-year-old Osman Hoxha and his family quietly mark the start of Ramadan, recalling the communist era when practicing religion meant risking death. Like many parts of the world, mosques in Muslim-majority Albania are eerily empty...

 The Syrian Air Force has bought three VIP helicopters despite the ailing economy and miserable living conditions due to the nine-year-old war, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Bashar al-Assad has obtained the VIP version of the Russian  Ansat-UT helicopters, according to a...

The main defendant in the first trial on state-sponsored torture in Syria sought police protection in Germany because he felt threatened by Bashar al-Assad's intelligence service after he switched sides, a German court was told Friday. Anwar Raslan, 57, is in the docks charged with...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Siege Language novel by Mohamed Wahbi hunts the bitter moments of the Syrian revolution in the early days. The Syrian doctor blended fiction with true incidents that occurred during his work in the Military hospital of Homs as his story takes place in the...