China's leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak's epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to contain an illness that has infected more than 1,200 people and killed 41. President Xi Jinping's remarks,...

Kurdish authorities said they transferred 21 orphans from a squalid displacement camp in northeast Syria on Saturday, including two French children who are set to be repatriated. The children, including some from France, Egypt and Dagestan, were only a fraction of the 224 orphans living in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the 14th-January Israeli airstrikes on the T-4 airbase had destroyed munitions and weapons transported by an Iranian cargo plane a few hours before the attack.  The source provided Zaman al-Wasl with satellite images show the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mother and her two children were killed Saturday in airstrikes on northern Idlib province as the Russian-backed regime forces step up attacks on rebel-held areas in the eastern countryside, activists said. Saturday's strikes targeted an array of villages west of Idlib...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Greek authorities are due to deport a Syrian refugee family to Turkey under the pretext that their hometown in Deir Ezzor province is safe, activists said Saturday. Mohamed Kazem Hindawi, director of the Arab European Organization for Human Rights, said that the Greek...

Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium at any percentage if Iranian authorities decide to do so, the deputy head of the country’s nuclear agency said in a report posted on its website on Saturday. “At the moment, if (Iranian authorities) make the decision, the Atomic Energy Organization,...

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane defended Gareth Bale on Saturday after the Welshman picking up another injury and also said Eden Hazard is close to a return. Bale will miss Madrid's La Liga game against Real Valladolid on Sunday after he sprained his ankle during Madrid's Copa del Rey win...

France is planning to evacuate its citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, the French Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. A statement on the official webpage of the French consulate in Wuhan said that France was “considering … setting up a...

Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country's foreign minister said in an interview released Saturday. Mohammed Javad Zarif told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that he would "never rule out the...

The closure of Libya’s major oil fields and production facilities has resulted in losses of more than $255 million in the six-day period ending Jan. 23, the country’s national oil company said Saturday. The closures came when powerful tribal groups loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar...

Three protesters were shot dead on Saturday in Iraq's capital and south, medics told AFP, as demonstrators clashed with security forces clearing streets and squares occupied for months by protesters. One demonstrator was killed in the capital Baghdad and two others were shot in the southern...

 U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Saturday that Britain and America would be able to conclude a trade deal this year, despite lingering disagreements on a digital services tax and whether to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to build aspects of a new high-speed mobile...

White House lawyers began presenting their defense of President Donald Trump Saturday at his historic Senate impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. White House counsel Pat Cipollone began presenting opening arguments at an extraordinary weekend session of the...

China is scrambling to build a 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days as authorities grapple with the spiralling outbreak of a virus that has left at least 41 dead, and infected hundreds of others. The mobile facility in the central city of Wuhan, birthplace of the Coronavirus epidemic, is...

Pope Francis met Iraq's president Saturday and the two agreed that the country's sovereignty must be respected, following attacks on Iraqi territory this month by the United States and Iran. President Barham Salih held private talks for about 30 minutes with the pope and then met the...

Iran condemned Saturday what it called the "illegal and inhuman" treatment of its nationals by U.S. border security officers, after reports a student was deported despite having a valid visa. "Such absolutely discriminatory measures that only happen over people's race, nationality or...

Brexit will not negatively affect cooperation between the intelligence services in Europe, the EU's anti-terrorism coordinator said. "The exchange of information is not impacted," Gilles de Kerchove said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU interior ministers in Zagreb on Friday....

The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 21 Saturday, with more than 1,000 people injured, emergency officials said. Rescue workers were continuing to search for some 30 people buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Elazig province and...

A funeral ceremony was held in south Lebanon for a Hezbollah field commander Friday, the Iran-backed group announced. Jaafar al-Sadek Harb was killed on the outskirts of Idlib on Thursday, according to a Hezbollah source. A statement from the group said that "Hezbollah and the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese military sentenced has sentenced a Syrian refugee to three years of hard labor on charges of belonging to the Islamic state (ISIS) and planning to commit crimes against the Lebanese people and undermining the authority of the state, activists said Saturday. ...