(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two deaths due to COVID-19 have been confirmed by residents in the southern Daraa province as the Syrian regime still denying the spread of the killer pandemic. Health officials claimed that a man and a women were died of pneumonia, refusing to let their...

Armoured vehicles in the streets, hundreds arrested, smartphone surveillance -- sweeping measures to fight the coronavirus have raised concerns in the Middle East over the erosion of already threatened human rights. As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, more than three billion people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After escaping the war towards the unknown, Mohamed Al Arabi (a pseudonym) ended up in detention in Manouia prison in  Cypriot city of  Larnaca city for over 7 months without trial or an official charge, leaving his wife and children to fend for themselves....

On a deserted street in the old city of Damascus, the new coronavirus has forced salesmen like Ahmad to close up shop indefinitely for the first time in Syria's war. "We've lived through some tough times during the war," says the 59-year-old, sitting on a chair on the pavement outside his...