Four children and their mother were killed when an old unexploded bomb went off in northern Jordan on Monday, according to Jordanian police. "A hand grenade exploded in Al-Mafraq province which led to the death of four children and their mother," police spokesman, Amer al-Sartawi, said....

Taher al-Matar's home in northwest Syria is in ruins but he has gone back to live there anyway, driven by dire conditions in camps for displaced people, where he fears any outbreak of the coronavirus would be devastating. Even though he worries a fragile ceasefire in the Idlib region may...

After nine years of war, Syria is broken into three rival parts unable to work together and ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus, an enemy that knows no conflict lines. Medical personnel in Kurdish-run northeastern Syria have resorted to making protective gear out of garbage bags. The...

Lookout researchers have uncovered a long-running surveillance campaign tied to Syrian nation-state actors, which recently started using the novel coronavirus as its newest lure to entice its targets to download malware. This campaign appears to have been active since the start of January 2018,...