(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army has buried tens of slain troops in the Firdaus cemetery in central Homs city on Sunday, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.  At least 350 Syrian army troops and officers were killed in the past four weeks in northern Syria, mostly killed in...

The border between Israel and Egypt was closed on Sunday due to the coronavirus outbreak.  According to the country's Public Broadcasting Corporation, Israel shut its land border with Egypt at 5.00 p.m. local time (1500GMT).  On Friday, Israel closed its borders with Syria and...

French health authorities reported three new coronavirus deaths on Sunday, taking the country's death toll from the outbreak to 19, as the number of reported infections also rose to 1,126 cases. The spike in COVID-19 cases came as French President Emmanuel Macron was holding an emergency...

Turkish police used tear gas to disperse a few dozen women who were still in central Istanbul after trying to march on Sunday evening to celebrate International Women’s Day. Reuters reporters saw the crowd, which was originally few hundred women, at the edge of Taksim Square holding banners...

Afghanistan’s minister of defense said on Sunday that if the Islamist Taliban did not stop attacks by the end of the week, it would switch from ‘defense mode’ to attacking the militant group. “Afghan forces will remain in defense mode until the end of this week under the guidance of...

Saudi authorities Sunday cordoned off the eastern region of Qatif, a centre of the kingdom's Shiite minority, in a bid to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus as the total number of cases rose to 11. The lockdown on Qatif, home to around 500,000 people, is the first action of its kind...

President Donald Trump defended the "perfectly coordinated" US response to the coronavirus epidemic Sunday amid heavy criticism over health cuts and strategic blunders that have failed to stem its rapid spread. The virus has reached 30 US states, killing at least 19 people, while the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday he would meet European Union officials Monday to discuss migration, and repeated his call for more help in coping with the millions of refugees it hosts from neighboring war-torn Syria. Facing a further influx of Syrians fleeing the fighting,...

Sudanese women were at the forefront of the protests that toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir but 11 months on, activists are disappointed at a lack of progress on women's issues. To show their frustration, dozens of women protested in front of the Justice Ministry in Khartoum on Sunday, which...

 It’s definitely a farewell. But will it be fond? Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will fulfill their final royal commitment when they appear Monday at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London. It's the last time they will be seen at work...

Israel's parliament Sunday beefed up the security detail protecting Benny Gantz, the main electoral challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after deeming various death threats against Gantz to be credible. The threats came in the wake of last week's volatile and inconclusive...

Protesters marched in Pakistani cities Sunday to mark International Women's Day in an ultra-conservative society where women are still put to death under ancient "honour" codes. Such events are garnering controversy in the patriarchal country, and last year's march sparked a furious...

Aid agencies are moving to prevent a novel coronavirus outbreak in conflict-plagued northwestern Syria, where damaged health infrastructure and massive displacement make containment a nearly impossible task. Syria has not yet confirmed any coronavirus cases but its "fragile health systems...

Moscow city authorities threatened prison terms of up to five years on Sunday for people failing to self-isolate in their homes for two weeks after visiting countries hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. The city government had announced a “high alert regime” and imposed extra measures on...

Malaysia’s palace on Sunday denied allegations of a “royal coup” in appointing the country’s prime minister after veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad resigned, saying the king used his discretionary powers prescribed in the constitution. The palace was responding to an editorial in the UK daily...

Ten people have died and 23 remain trapped after the collapse of a hotel that was being used to quarantine people under observation for the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, authorities said on Sunday. More than 70 people were believed to have been initially trapped in the seven...

Saudi Arabia’s authorities have recorded four news cases of the coronavirus, taking the total of infections to 11, the kingdom’s health ministry said on Twitter on Sunday. The new four individuals, which include three women, have interacted with another case reported previously who had been...

Tunisia has cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 1% from the 2.7% envisaged in the 2020 budget, Prime Minister Elyess Fakhfakh said on Sunday, as the vital tourism sector faces a strong threat due to the coronavirus crisis. He told the local Magreb newspaper that the...

Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 49 more people in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 194 amid 6,566 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic. That’s accord to Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, who gave the figures at a news conference Sunday. There are...

 Palestinian refugee Mohamed Abu Sakhr, a resident of Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, was killed as he fought alongside the opposition factions in the northern city of Saraqeb. Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria has documented the death of 4,032 Palestinian refugees since the...