(Zaman Al Wasl)- Brigadier General Yusef Ghanem Hussein has been appointed by Bashar al-Assad as the commander of the Air Force 24th Brigade in eastern Deir Ezzor province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. According to military sources, Hussein is considered as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, the Idlib Educational Complex has been closed and classes suspended in fearing that the virus would reach the liberated areas in northern Syrian. Despite the difficulties  of the distance learning , teachers in...

Turkey’s confirmed cases of coronavirus increased by 4,117 in the last 24 hours, and 87 people have died, taking the death toll to 812, the health ministry announced on Wednesday. The total number of recovered cases stood at 1,846, and the number of tests carried out over the last 24 hours...

Cuts to Tripoli’s water and power supply on Tuesday and Wednesday aggravated conditions for civilians after days of intensified fighting that have undermined preparations to cope with the novel coronavirus. Nader Mohamed, a taxi driver and father of three in Tripoli, said the situation had...

A new report by the global chemical weapons watchdog is the latest addition to a “large and growing body of evidence” that the Syrian government uses chemical weapons against its people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. Pompeo also said in a statement that Washington...

Police in Italy tightened lockdown controls Wednesday as cabin fever and a slowing in the coronavirus death toll tempted Italians out in increasing numbers. One month since the nationwide measures were enforced, Italy's "Phase 2" plans for easing the lockdown have gripped the nation but...

 The Arab-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement will announce at midnight Wednesday it is halting military operations nationwide to support a U.N. ceasefire initiative, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The suspension in fighting, expected to go...

 Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir Wednesday lost an appeal against a sentence of two years in detention for corruption, his lawyer said. "The appeals court upheld the conviction but we will file an appeal in the supreme court because we're fully convinced there is no case"...

Bernie Sanders' socialist ideals and calls for universal health care and higher wages have long been mocked in U.S. politics, but he tapped a vein of youth discontent that made him a serious contender for the White House. However, the feisty 78-year-old senator from Vermont threw in the...

Jordan's state finances will be deeply hurt by a loss of revenue caused by the impact of the coronavirus on its economy but the aid-dependent kingdom will be able to repay its foreign debt obligations, the finance minister said. Mohammed Al Ississ said in remarks on state television that...

The Gaza Strip has no more coronavirus test kits, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, amid fears of disaster if the illness spreads in the blockaded, densely packed enclave. "Testing at our central laboratory has stopped, after coronavirus test kits completely ran out," Gaza health...

US and British cybersecurity agencies warned Wednesday that foreign government-backed hacking groups are using coronavirus themes to ply their way into computers and networks. The groups are sending phishing emails and setting up websites with COVID-19 virus subjects, aiming to lure users...

Louis Vuitton is converting five of its French worshops to make masks for frontline health workers, the luxury brand said Wednesday. Its chairman Michael Burke praised employees who had volunteered to make the non-surgical masks with France hit -- like several other countries -- by...

Turkey will monitor the mobile phones of those diagnosed with the new coronavirus to ensure they do not break quarantine, authorities said Wednesday, marking the latest measure to stem an outbreak that has surged over the last month. Turkey will start tracking citizens and send them a...

Global trade growth is expected to plummet by up to a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday, warning that the numbers would be "ugly". "World trade is expected to fall by between 13 percent and 32 percent in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic...

Syrian Arab Air Force pilots flying Sukhoi Su-22 military planes and a helicopter dropped bombs containing poisonous chlorine and sarin nerve gas on a village in the country's western Hama region in March 2017, a new team at the global chemical weapons watchdog has concluded in its first...

Bahrain will spend $570 million on paying salaries to all 100,000 of its citizens employed in the private sector from April to June to help soften the economic blow from the coronavirus outbreak, the government said Wednesday. Governments in the Gulf region have announced stimulus packages...

Coronavirus lockdowns may make or break relationships, but in Dubai marriages and divorces have been suspended "until further notice" to avoid gatherings that could spread the disease. Dubai's justice department said Wednesday that the decision was among the "measures to prevent the spread...

Millions in Lebanon risk food insecurity due to a coronavirus lockdown unless the government provides urgent assistance, Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday. Lebanon in mid-March ordered residents to stay at home and all non-essential businesses to close to halt the spread of COVID-19,...

To some, Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is guilty of a "catastrophic failure" of leadership for not urgently conveying the coronavirus threat to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that elected him. Milder critics have described Litzman as a "tragic" leader, whose limited authority...