NEW DELHI (AP) — India's two largest cities imposed stringent restrictions on movement and one planned to use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 Thursday amid a devastating surge that is straining a fragile health system....

Three tankers loaded with crude oil docked at the port of Baniyas in Tartus province, which would cover the local market’s needs of gasoline, diesel and fuel for nearly two months, State-run Al-Baath newspaper said Wednesday. The newspaper of the ruling party quoted an official source...

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing concerns over a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in their region, calling on international health organizations to intervene to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.”   A 10-day curfew went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to...

Health Directorate in the Turkish-held region of Ras al-Ain has recorded 24 coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a new wave of the pandemic in northeast Syria A medical source told Zaman al-Wasl than 24 people were tested positive for COVID-19. Five of them were admitted to the main...