After nearly two months of being sedated and connected to IV lines in a hospital's intensive care unit, Francisco Espana took a moment to fill his ailing lungs with fresh air at a Barcelona beachfront. Lying on a hospital bed at the beach promenade and surrounded by a doctor and three...

Sama Al-Hamad, 6, a little Syrian girl who appeared in a video surfaced by activists innocently asking for her eye back, which she lost in the Beirut explosion on August 4. Sama fled northern Aleppo after the Islamic State took control and came to live with her father in Mar Mikhael,...

Firas and Zeina survived Beirut's port explosion unscathed but still sustained severe injuries -- not in the disaster itself but in the heavy-handed crackdown on the street protests that followed. Firas Hamdan, 33, a lawyer who was filming one demonstration, was hit in the heart by a lead...

The number of COVID-19 deaths among medical personnel in government-held parts of Syria has shot up in recent weeks amid a rise in infections, several sources told AFP. The capital Damascus has been especially hard hit, with doctors warning of a deteriorating situation in overcrowded...