On 10 September 2020 Dr Adnan Al-Jasem became the first doctor in northern Syria to die from coronavirus. Al-Jasem had fled the bombings in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country and tended to the wounded throughout Syria’s nine-year long war. Yet it was the virus he died of whilst working...

UN-backed experts have found evidence that rebels in Yemen recruited nearly three dozen teenage girls - some said to be survivors of sexual violence - as spies, medics, guards and members of an all-female force, according to a report released Wednesday. The findings came in the third and...

 Two Coronavirus cases were confirmed in northeastern Hasakah province on Wednesday as the Syrian regime extended a nationwide curfew to stem the spread of coronavirus. The regime imposed the nationwide curfew just over a month ago after it announced its first official confirmed...

Syrian authorities on Thursday sealed a major Shi'ite shrine that is a magnet for tens of thousands of Iranian pilgrims whom medics and the U.N. officials warned their congregation puts the country at risk of a major spread of coronavirus. The move comes as the war-ravaged country steps up...