Russia and Turkey held a fourth joint patrol in northern Idlib region, the RIA news agency cited the Russian Reconciliation Centre for Syria as saying on Wednesday. The patrol covered the M4 highway which links the cities of Aleppo and Latakia, and is part of the two countries’...

Thousands of displaced Syrians have begun moving back to their homes in war-torn Idlib province despite the risk of renewed conflict, some driven by fear that the new coronavirus could wreak havoc on crowded camps near the Turkish border. About one million Syrians fled Idlib and its...

A trauma surgeon who operated in some of the world’s worst war zones has said that fighting on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis is an “intense experience” and is as bad as “seeing children blown up in Aleppo”. Dr David Nott is a world-renowned trauma surgeon from...

The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate the reputations of Western main battle tanks mistakenly thought to be night-invulnerable in the...