Nine people were killed in a bloody confrontation Friday in western Mexico between a criminal gang and agents investigating a suspected kidnapping, officials said. The dead included two officers and six people believed to have been held captive in a house in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco state,...

The Indian government backtracked Saturday after slapping a 48-hour ban on two TV channels for what officials called biased coverage of New Delhi riots. A blackout of Asianet News and MediaOne was ordered on Friday but lifted after an outcry from opposition groups and protests by the...

LeBron James and Anthony Davis scored all but one of Los Angeles' points in the final quarter as the Lakers rallied to beat the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks 113-102 and clinch a playoff spot on Friday. The dynamic duo combined for 67 points as James scored 11 of his team-high 37 points in the...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the Turkish coastguard to prevent migrants from crossing the Aegean sea because of the risks, state media reported. "On the orders of the president ... permission will not be given for migrants to cross the Aegean Sea because it is dangerous," the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 700 Syrian refugees have been displaced due to a river flood in the Lebanese district of Akkar, one of the refugees told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The floods of Awaik River have destroyed about 100 tents in the camp, said Abu Yazan.  The Mediterranean...

A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was "martyred" in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died. The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a "defender of Sayida Zainab shrine," the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 120 regime forces from coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces have killed by the Turkish army, such a death toll is expected to rise as Turkish Defense Ministry says Bashar al-Assad's deaths are exceeded 2500. At least 350 Syrian army troops and officers were...

Twenty-one people have tested positive for coronavirus aboard a cruise ship denied entry to San Francisco Bay this week after a number of passengers and crew developed flu-like symptoms on the vessel, which was linked to previously confirmed COVID-19 infections. U.S. Vice President Mike...

Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the Saudi royal family including Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, a younger full brother of King Salman and uncle of the crown prince, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Prince Ahmed was one of only three people on the Allegiance...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an $8.3 billion emergency funding bill Friday to fight the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of infections with the virus globally topped 100,000.  White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere announced that Trump signed the Coronavirus...

OPEC and its allies failed to reach a deal on oil production cuts Friday, after Moscow refused to tighten supply to counter the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. The day before, OPEC ministers had recommended reducing output by 1.5 million barrels per day in face of the global slowdown...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a phone call Friday that agreements reached between Russia and Turkey at recent talks would stabilise the situation in Syria's Idlib province, the Kremlin said. "Bashar al-Assad rated the outcome of the talks between...

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Florida on Saturday to discuss trade, infrastructure, Venezuela and the Middle East, the White House said in a statement on Friday. Trump, who had announced the weekend meeting while speaking to reporters at...

A new ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey took hold Friday in northwestern Syria, but after years of failed truces residents like Fadi say they are not holding their breath. The deal intends to stop a deadly Moscow-backed regime offensive since December against the country's last major...

Lebanon looks set to announce Saturday it cannot make upcoming dollar bond payments and wants to restructure $31 billion of foreign currency debt, sources said, unless a last-minute deal with creditors is found to avoid a disorderly default. Debt default would mark a new phase in a...

Turkish president on Friday said Ankara reached a cease-fire deal with Russia regarding northwestern Idlib city of Syria, which would hopefully bring an end to a war between Muslim parties.   Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks came after Friday prayers in Istanbul, where he commented...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a gun assault on a political rally in the Afghan capital Friday that killed 29 people and wounded 61. "Two brothers... targeted a gathering of apostates... in Kabul city with machine guns, hand grenades and rocket-propelled grenades," it said in a...

The novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, infected more than 97,000 people across the world, according to a data collecting website "worldometer". The death toll has risen to 3,390 worldwide, including 3,042 in China, where the virus outbreak first emerged from the city of Wuhan...

An eerie emptiness enveloped the sacred Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site, where attendance at Friday prayers was hit by measures to protect against the deadly new coronavirus. An imam said during his sermon he hoped for an end to the epidemic and backed a decision by...

Representatives of Iraq's top Shiite cleric did not deliver his weekly sermon in Karbala on Friday, a first since the fall of Saddam Hussein, due to fears of spreading the novel coronavirus. Religious authorities had already closed the shrine of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet...