An international aid group said Wednesday that closures aimed at containing the coronavirus pandemic are preventing it from reaching 300,000 people in conflict zones across the Middle East, as the virus arrived in war-torn Libya and case counts rose in Syria and the Gaza Strip, among the...

 Human rights groups warned Tuesday of a "catastrophe" if the novel coronavirus hits the Syrian regime's overcrowded and squalid prisons, where inmates are routinely denied medical care. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have long documented abuses in the prisons of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish army on Thursday has established a new observation point on the strategic M4 highway near Jisr al-Shughour city, according to Zaman Al Wasl reporter.  The new outpost was established in the town of al-Kfayr west of Idlib city on the Aleppo-Latakia...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran's Revolutionary Guards have formed a command center in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo province as regime and Iran proxies keep fortifying positions near the last rebel stronghold in Syria. The joint command room included top commanders of the IRG,...