Iran said Tuesday that the number of lives lost in the country to the novel coronavirus dropped to double figures for the first time in one month. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 98 deaths from the COVID-19 disease were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall...

Turkey is pushing its credentials as a major humanitarian power in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic by sending medical equipment to Italy and Spain, detection kits for Palestinians and even medicines to Armenia. Turkey is hard hit itself by the virus outbreak which has killed nearly...

A fierce dispute has divided the Palestinian community after Gaza's rulers, Hamas, arrested six local activists for chatting by video conference with left-leaning campaigners in Israel. Islamist group Hamas bans all communications with Israel and last week arrested the six members of the...

Thousands of shops across Austria will reopen on Tuesday as it becomes one of the first countries in Europe to loosen its coronavirus lockdown, but the government is still telling the nation it is “not out of the woods” yet. Austria acted early in its outbreak to close schools, bars,...

In a live televised address early on Tuesday morning, India's prime minister extended the nationwide lockdown until May 3 to contain novel coronavirus pandemic. Narendra Modi assured that in the second phase of the lockdown, certain services would be relaxed somewhat in certain areas....

Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) announced late Monday that it has regained control of around 2,000 square miles of land west of the capital Tripoli from militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar.  In a statement, GNA military spokesman Mohammed Qanunu said the...

 China has approved early-stage human tests for two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus as it battles to contain imported cases, especially from neighbouring Russia, the new “front line” in the war on COVID-19. Russia has become China’s largest source of imported cases,...

Israel's parliament speaker Benny Gantz was given 48 hours Tuesday to reach a deal on an emergency unity government with his former election rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The narrow negotiating window was approved by President Reuven Rivlin minutes after Gantz's four-week...

A barrage of North Korean missiles fired from both the ground and fighter jets splashed down on the waters off the country's east coast Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, a major show of force on the eve of a key state anniversary in the North and parliamentary elections in rival South...

Measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus can only be lifted slowly, if the right public health measures are in place, including significant capacity for contact tracing, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. “While COVID-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Pro-Justice organization has continued efforts to reveal the systematic corruption of Syria’s regime through uncovering the war criminals who committed atrocities against the Syrian people. Months ago, the non-profit human rights monitoring revealed named 93 figures...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese Access Center for Human Rights has reported a high surge in violations against Syrian refugees since 2019, including arbitrary arrests, torture and enforced disappearances. The Lebanese monitoring has directly contacted victims of torture in person...

France reported 574 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the total to 14,967 since the coronavirus outbreak began.  A total of 335 of the deaths occurred in hospitals, up from 315 the previous day, while 239 deaths were recorded in...

As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. The outbreak has infected more than 1.8 million people and killed more than...

The global oil production deal clinched at the weekend will help establish a price floor and save millions of jobs in the United States, senior Russian officials said on Monday. Having been in a stand-off with western nations - most notably the United States - from 2014 on everything from...

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela were unjust in a telephone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday and called for the two countries to cooperate together within the OPEC+ group. Washington reimposed sanctions on Iran in...

Activists have warned that civilian property has been subjected to theft and homes to burglary in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Damascus. “Coronavirus pandemlic has put the entire world out of action and paralyzed everybody’s movement, except for thieve’s motion...

Nearly 110,000 displaced Syrians have returned to their homes in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, since Turkey and Russia agreed on a cease-fire in the region on March 5. Around one million Syrians were displaced from Idlib province when the Syrian regime and its allies launched an...

Israel was bracing for more political turmoil Monday as talks between the country's rival political leaders faltered ahead of a midnight deadline to form a coalition government. Israel is in the throes of a political crisis that has left the country with a caretaker government and paralyzed...

Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 566 Monday, up from 431 the day before, but the number of new cases slowed to 3,153 from a previous 4,092. The number of new cases was the lowest since April 7. The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 rose to...