A drastic rise in COVID-19 infections has pushed Lebanon’s hospitals to the edge, and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope as the country buckles under a succession of devastating crises. Lebanon’s healthcare system was already struggling before several hospitals were badly...

Oman has sent an ambassador to Syria, becoming the first Gulf Arab state to do so after they downgraded or shut missions in Damascus in 2012 over attacks by the government there on protests at the start of what turned into a war. Oman is one of the rare Arab countries that kept diplomatic...

Fierce forest fires, a monster explosion that killed friends, then more Beirut blazes; Lebanon's emergency services are reeling from a devastating year, but are determined to press on. Lebanese firefighter Afraa Obeid, a 27-year-old woman with long black hair, recounted how she lost her...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented at least 162 cases of arbitrary arrests and detention in September, including two children and six women, noting that it has been the highest record of arrests since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, and that the Syrian regime doesn’t...