Kurdish authorities performed tests for the new coronavirus on those arriving at Qamishli's domestic airport from Damascus. Medics and security teams set up a mobile testing facility at a roundabout outside of the airport and examined the returning passengers. Mohammed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Tensions eased in southern Syria after three troops from the Druze community were released by an armed group in Daraa province, local activists said Monday. An armed group in Busr al-Harir town held three forces on Saturday, demanding the release of an old man was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Architect of Freedom, a film by Syrian director Anmar Al-Sayed about the late Syrian activist Raed al-Fares who was killed along with activist Hamoud Junaid by Syria's former al-Qaeda branch in November 2018 in northern Idlib province.   The film is a...

 - Bedouin herders in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, already isolated by virtue of their nomadic lifestyle, have become more cut off than ever from ordinary Palestinian life since the coronavirus outbreak began. That isolation is a double-edged sword. They say their mobility makes...

The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus outbreak has reached 3,739, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on state TV on Monday. The total number of people infected by coranavirus in the country has reached 60,500, he said.

When bestselling French novelist Leila Slimani -- the author of "The Perfect Nanny" -- admitted that she felt "a little like Sleeping Beauty" contemplating the coronavirus lockdown from the comfort of her country home, she hit a very raw nerve. Class tensions -- never very far from the...

Hedge fund managers sensed oil prices were nearing a turning point last week, and for the first time in more than two months started to add long positions in anticipation prices would bounce from an unsustainable low. Overall, hedge funds and other money managers were still net sellers of...

An Algerian court Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country's anti-regime protest movement to one year in prison, part of a crackdown on activists, a support group said. Abdelouahab Fersaoui, who heads the civic group Youth Action Rally (RAJ), was arrested in October during a...

Premier League clubs are facing a fierce backlash after Liverpool became the latest club to tap into public funds during the coronavirus pandemic as players and bosses struggle to resolve a festering pay-cut row. English top-flight clubs, among the wealthiest in the world, have come under...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish forces have set up three new observation points in northern Idlib province, topping the number to 54 amid heavy reinforcements keep pouring to the last opposition stronghold in Syria despite a ceasefire deal reached last March, local activists said Sunday. ...

Saudi Arabia and Russia are "very, very close" to a deal on oil production cuts, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, told CNBC Monday. "I think the whole market understands that this deal is important and it will bring lots of stability, so much important stability to...

Rockets landed near a district that houses foreign workers in Iraq's oil industry early Monday but caused no damage or casualties, oil and police sources said. Police said the three Katyusha rockets, launched at around 3 a.m. local time, hit the Burjesia residential and operations...

 Lebanese banks are to apply an exchange rate of 2,600 pounds per dollar for withdrawals from small accounts of up to 5 million Lebanese pounds, a central bank source said Monday, in the implementation of a new circular issued Friday. Lebanon is still applying an official peg of...

Iran will never ask the United States for help in the fight against the new coronavirus, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Monday. The Iranian Health Ministry announced Monday that the death toll in Iran from the coronavirus outbreak has reached 3,739. The total number of people...

The United States had no knowledge of a shipment of face masks bound for Germany that officials in Berlin have accused it of diverting from an airport in Bangkok, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Thailand said. The comment came after Berlin Secretary of Interior Andreas Geisel said...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in hospital on Monday undergoing tests after suffering "persistent" symptoms of coronavirus for 10 days, but colleagues insisted he remains in charge of the government. The Conservative leader announced on March 27 that he had tested positive for...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday the government plans to declare a state of emergency and proposed a stimulus package worth $1 trillion as new coronavirus infections spike in Tokyo and elsewhere.  "We hope to declare a state of emergency as early as tomorrow after...

Taiwan has replaced its tourism chief and ordered vacationers who visited crowded scenic sites over the recent holiday weekend to avoid public spaces as it strives to maintain its relative success in containing the coronavirus.  Tourism Bureau Director-General Chou Yung-hui was demoted...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Republican Guard troops and one Hezbollah militant were killed on Sunday when an explosion struck weapons depot in northern Aleppo province, a rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The depot s located in the town of Miznaz in the western countryside of...

Turkey said on Sunday it would minimise its troop movements in operation zones in neighbouring Syria in response to the coronavirus outbreak as the Turkish death toll and infections in the country rose. Turkey’s death toll from the COVID-19 disease has risen by 73 to 574 in the last 24...