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Improved security in Syria camp but virus threat grows

Residents of the al Hol camp are suffering from a lack of services amid an outbreak of coronavirus among displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees inside the camp. There have been 19 identified and isolated COVID cases, with two deaths, according to Jaber Mustafa, head of the relations...

Syrian court accepts 3 candidates to run for president

 Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country, state media reported Monday. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad, who was chosen...

UN focuses on demand to repatriate foreign fighters in Libya

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held an informal meeting Thursday focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya, a demand of the country’s transitional government as it heads toward December elections after a decade of fighting...