Rights campaigners are urging the Russian government to consider releasing some pre-trial detainees and prisoners held in the country's packed jails, warning of the "devastating consequences" of the coronavirus pandemic. More than half a million people are held in Russia's notoriously...

First-hand experience is a critical factor in the authority of official war art. Syrian artist Nour Zantah has plenty. Born in Homs in 1989, she watched the violation of her country in the opening months of the civil war. The turning point was when protesters in her home city swarmed around...

France has seen spiking numbers both in fatalities and infections, but the country continues to wage its own private war against coronavirus epidemic. Tuesday marks the second wave of confinement in France, a measure President Emmanuel Macron put in place on March 17 to curb the spread of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sewing workshops in northern Syria have begun to make medical masks to provide the health facilities in the de-facto stricken areas due to regime offensive and now due to the killer Coronavirus. Ahmed Abdul Rahman, an owner of a sewing workshop in Idlib province,...