Deadly clashes erupted in southern Idlib on Friday, hours into a ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey aimed at ending the fighting in the last rebel-held enclave in Syria. A war monitor and a rebel source said the fighting broke out in the Jabal al-Zawiya region between Syrian...

The European Union will host a Syria donor conference in Brussels on June 29-30 to raise funds for victims of the nine-year war and surrounding countries, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday. Borrell, the EU's top diplomat, said governments involved in the conflict will be...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- In this torture memo, Zaman al-Wasl met with a former detainee who was paralyzed due to shrapnel in 2013 and since her sought to get treatment she had been endured to hospital custody and security detention along with her two daughters. Umm Mohamed, an old...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Loyalists of Bashar al-Assad on Friday have buried a military pilot said his fighter jet was crashed in the Shayrat airfield in central Homs province. General Brigadier Younes Maqdeed was buried in coastal latakia city. At least three regime warplanes have been...

Iran’s death toll from coronavirus infections jumped on Friday to 124, as 17 died over the past 24 hours and more than 1,000 were additionally diagnosed with the disease, a health ministry spokesman said in Tehran. The number of infections rose to 4,747, he said. Iran had reported 3,513...

Turkey’s military observation posts in Syria’s Idlib will retain their current status with the Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal, President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying by his office on Friday, adding the agreement laid the groundwork for the normalization of the region. Turkey and...

A volley of gunfire rang out in Kabul on Friday at a ceremony attended by top Afghan government officials. Former President Hamid Karzai, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and a number of other figures fled the site in the capital Kabul, a spokesman of the chief executive told Anadolu...

 At least one militant on a motorbike blew himself up outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia Friday wounding five police, local media reported, in the country's most serious apparent attack since the summer. Embassy officials confirmed the attack in a tweet on its official Twitter feed,...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has relieved the economy minister in the latest cabinet reshuffle, official media reported citing a royal decree, as the kingdom grapples with plunging oil prices. Saudi Press Agency said late Thursday that the king "relieved" Mohammed al-Tuwaijri from his...

A surge in 1948 Palestinian voter turnout was key to depriving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist allies of a parliamentary majority in this week’s Israeli election. Undercutting Netanyahu’s ambitions was celebrated as sweet payback in the nearly 2 million-strong minority...

Brief clashes broke out at Turkey's border with Greece on Friday, where thousands of refugees have been encouraged to leave for the European Union. Greek police fired tear gas at migrants trying to break through the fence, who responded by throwing stones, according to AFP journalists at...

Syria’s Idlib region was quiet but tense on Friday with a lull in Russian and Syrian air raids that have pounded the last opposition-held enclave in Syria, residents and opposition sources said, after Turkey and Russia declared a ceasefire. Turkey and Russia agreed to the ceasefire deal...

Saudi Arabia reopened two of the most holy religious sites in Islam, Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca and Al-Masjid al Nabawy in Medina, after they were closed for sterilization to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, state TV Al-Ekhbariya reported on Friday. Saudi Arabia closed the sites to...

Tension flared at Greece’s mainland border with Turkey early on Friday as volleys of tear gas were fired from the Turkish side of the fence towards Greek border guards. There has been a standoff in the border area of Kastanies since Feb. 28, when Ankara said it would no longer hold back...

A ceasefire deal between Moscow and Ankara in Syria’s Idlib region needs to be cemented with a no-fly zone to stop any further bombings of hospitals, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said on Friday. “It would be wise to add a no-fly zone,” he told reporters on arriving for a meeting with EU...

Turkey staged an attack with a combat drone against Syrian government forces in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday before a ceasefire went into effect, destroying military equipment and “neutralising” soldiers, the Turkish defense ministry said. It said the drone attack occurred around 4 p.m....

 Thousands of migrants have made for Greece since Ankara said on Feb. 28 that it would let migrants cross its borders into Europe, reneging on a commitment to hold them on its territory under a 2016 deal with the European Union. Ankara has accused Greek forces of shooting dead...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority with his hard-line allies, final election results confirmed Thursday, extending the country's year-old political deadlock and weakening the longtime leader as he prepares to go on trial for corruption...

Lebanon’s financial prosecutor froze the assets of 20 Lebanese banks, their top bosses and board members as part of a probe, state media and judicial sources said on Thursday. Local banks are at the heart of a financial crisis crippling Lebanon as the clock runs down on its looming debt...

Iraq has ordered schools to teach pupils online, cancelled Friday prayers and suspended trade with major partner Iran, after confirming its first three deaths from the new coronavirus. Authorities stepped up attempts to contain COVID-19 on Thursday. With students scheduled to return to...