Russia and Saudi Arabia have good relations when it comes to oil markets and Moscow does not need anyone else to intervene, the Kremlin said on Friday, when asked to comment on a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump saying he planned to get involved. Trump said on Thursday he would get...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech on state television for the Persian New Year, praised Iranians for their “dazzling” sacrifices in fighting the coronavirus outbreak in the worst-hit country in the Middle East. Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority, said it had been a...

Formula One drivers will join video gamers in a series of virtual grands prix to replace races postponed by the coronavirus outbreak, the sport announced on Friday. The first, run on the official F1 2019 PC video game, will be held from 2000GMT on Sunday when fans should have been tuning in...

Palestinian worshippers scuffled with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on Friday as crowds headed to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray, amid a partial lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Police in riot gear and wearing face masks put barricades up outside Damascus Gate and other...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three brothers died of torture by intelligence services in southern Daraa province despite a reconciliation deal reached with the Syrian regime in 2018, relatives said Thursday. Hussam, Haitham and Ahmed Abu Halaweh were former rebels but they tricked like...

Iranians will overcome a coronavirus outbreak with unity, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Friday, praising doctors and nurses for their courage in fighting the disease that has killed 1,284 in the Middle East country. “Our nation has managed to reach its goals,...

Oil prices recovered further on Friday, following steep gains in the previous session after U.S. President Donald Trump hinted he may intervene in the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia at an “appropriate time”. Prices were also supported by United States’ plans to buy up to 30...

Forces of Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) neutralized 25 militia members loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar early Friday during clashes in the capital.  Tripoli-based Febrayer TV reported that troops taking part in the GNA’s Volcano of Rage Operation and...

France’s Cannes Film Festival, one of the film industry’s most important annual events, has been postponed to June or July amid concerns over the novel coronavirus, its organizers said Thursday.      “The Festival de Cannes cannot be held on the scheduled dates, from May 12...

A year after the last black flag of the Islamic State group was lowered in the Syrian village of Baghouz, local farmer Hamad al-Ibrahim is trying to restore his damaged land. But traces of the jihadist group are still all around him in this small and remote village near the Iraqi border,...

With millions of face masks, low interest loans and teams of medical experts, China is trying to paint itself as a Good Samaritan while deflecting criticism over its initial missteps in handling the coronavirus. Beijing has showered struggling European nations with aid as part of a...

French senators have approved a bill giving the government special powers to fight the worsening coronavirus outbreak as the death toll rose to 372 on Thursday. The text, which will be examined by the National Assembly on Friday, allows the government to restrict people’s freedom of...

Turkey's Defense Ministry said on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib in a rocket attack by "some radical groups". One other soldier was wounded in the attack, the ministry said, adding that its forces had opened fire on targets in the...

The radical Hurras al Din group is responsible for kidnapping and forcibly disappearing six activists working for relief organisations in northern Idlib province, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday. Since the beginning of 2020, SNHR has documented at...

Turkey said on Thursday that one of its soldiers had died as a result of a heart attack in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. The soldier was preparing for night duties on Wednesday when he had the heart attack, the defense ministry said. Earlier, the governor’s office in Turkey’s...

Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, who was detained in Lebanon in September, has been released and is on his way back to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Fakhoury, a 57-year-old New Hampshire resident, was accused of overseeing the torture of Lebanese at a...

Moroccan police have arrested at least a dozen people for spreading rumours about the coronavirus, including a woman who used her YouTube channel to say the disease did not exist, authorities said on Thursday. “Fake news is the first cause of panic among citizens,” said Prime Minister Saad...

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy rose in the last 24 hours by 427 to 3,405, overtaking the total number of deaths so far registered in China, officials said on Thursday. Thursday's figure represented a slight improvement on the day before, when Italy recorded 475...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he didn't know if Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria since 2012, was still alive. "If he's alive, we would like to get him back," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We're working very hard with Syria to get him out," the...

The Dutch, Spanish and Monaco Formula One Grand Prix races were Thursday postponed due to the global spread of coronavirus, officials announced, with the start of the season now pushed back to June at the earliest. The triple postponements follow the cancellation of the season-opening...