TOKYO (AP) — After months of frustration and delay, Japan has hit the remarkable benchmark of 1 million vaccines a day. But with the Olympics set to start in less than a month, and only a small portion of the country vaccinated, a question lingers: Is it enough? The vaccination pace...

Millions of people in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province face “catastrophic” consequences if a cross-border aid operation is shut down during a Security Council vote next month, humanitarian advocates warned. In Idlib, northwest Syria, much-needed humanitarian relief supplies are...

More than 200 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in northeast Syria's densely-populated Al-Hol camp for the displaced and families of defeated jihadists, a government official said Thursday. The vaccination drive, using AstraZeneca jabs under the Covax programme for low-income...

  Four pro-regime militants were killed and six wounded in a landline explosion in the central province of Hama, state-run news agency reported Thursday.   The landmine went off while a military bus was passing near the village of Rasm Ghazali in the eastern countryside of...