Middle East and North Africa
Jordan to close border with Syria after spike in COVID-19 cases
Amman (Reuters) - Jordan will close its land trade border crossing with Syria for a week after a rise in COVID-19 cases coming from...
Syria’s Assad stops speech due to low blood pressure before resuming – state TV
Amman (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad suffered low blood pressure for a few minutes while delivering a speech to parliament before resuming...
France to bolster Mediterranean military presence over Turkish prospecting – Macron
Paris (Reuters) - France will increase its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, calling on Turkey to halt...
Syria’s Assad says new U.S. sanctions are part of drive to ‘choke’ Syrians
Amman (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday that sweeping new U.S. sanctions amounted to a new stage of economic warfare...
Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says
Baghdad (Reuters) - A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraq’s border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were...