On a summer day last year, presidential guards drove out of the charity organization founded by Syria’s wealthiest businessman and a close cousin of President Bashar Assad, carting away boxes of documents and computers. At the same time, the charity’s director was being questioned at the...

Brazil and Mexico reported record daily coronavirus death tolls as governments in Latin America battled to fortify defenses against the accelerating pandemic with fresh lockdown orders and curfews. European nations are emerging from months of devastation with some borders re-opening, but...

The Central Bank of Syria imposed a cap of five million Syrian liras ($9,746) on the amount of cash that travellers may carry with them when they move from one province to another within the country. In an official memo, the bank required travellers to transfer any money that is more than...

Millions of children have been displaced and more than 29,000 others killed since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, according to a joint report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and Anadolu Agency. The United Nations observe the International Day of Innocent Children Victims...