Prisoners at a Syrian jail run by Kurdish forces holding suspected ISIS (Daesh) members rioted and some escaped on Sunday, said Kurdish sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A senior member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) running Ghouiran prison in the...

Moscow's mayor announced strict isolation rules for the city from Monday, the latest in a series of measures introduced in Russia to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The new restrictions would apply to all the city's residents, regardless of age, mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a...

Cheering erupted from balconies and windows in Lebanon on Sunday evening, as the country's citizens celebrated their "heroic" medical workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative spread online with the Arabic hashtag "a cheer for the heroes", shared by public figures including...

The EU on Sunday called for an immediate and nationwide cease-fire in Syria to deal with the novel coronavirus. In a statement, EU External Action spokesman Peter Stano stressed the dangers of the virus in war-zones, reiterating the importance of ending hostilities which he said "is...