His home in volatile northwest Syria may have been destroyed, but Hassan Khraiby decided returning was better than risking his 10 children catch the coronavirus in a packed displacement camp. "We were scared the coronavirus might spread because of the severe overcrowding," 45-year-old...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A fire broke out in four warehouses in Souq al-Hal, the main fruit marketplace in the Syrian capital on Thursday, local media outlets said. The state-run news agency (SANA) said no casualties had been reported and the blaze was under control. Shop owners ruled...

Inside the Syrian capital's Great Umayyad Mosque, six muezzins sit before a loudspeaker, collectively reciting the call to prayer that can be heard across the ancient quarters of Damascus. They are among 25 muezzins who take shifts intoning the azan, or call to prayer, in groups, using a...

A single machine at Mohamad Shahim Makki’s medical centre in Idlib province, part of Syria’s last rebel stronghold, is the only alarm that will sound when the coronavirus strikes a population of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Makki’s Epidemiological Surveillance...