Testing for the novel coronavirus is to start within days in northwest Syria, the World Health Organisation said Monday, amid fears of a disaster if the pandemic reached overcrowded displacement camps. Some three million people are trapped in the rebel enclave of Idlib in the country's...

Lebanon's finance ministry on Monday said it will "discontinue" payments on all dollar-denominated Eurobonds due in the next 15 years to safeguard dwindling foreign currency reserves. "The government has decided to discontinue payments on all of its outstanding US$-denominated Eurobonds,"...

Police in northern Cyprus said Saturday that they had rescued 175 Syrians from the sea after authorities in the island's south stopped them from disembarking the previous day. The eastern Mediterranean island is divided between the internationally-recognised Republic of Cyprus and the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese lawyers along with Syrian activists launched an appeal to the Lebanese government to approve general amnesty law for all Lebanese prisons for fear of the spread of the Covid19 virus as Lebanon’s coronavirus cases rose to 201, according to the Health Ministry....