More than 500 Syrians, some related to alleged Islamic State group members, quit the overcrowded Kurdish-run camp of Al-Hol in the northeast of the war-torn country Monday, Kurdish officials said. An AFP reporter saw dozens of women lugging their belongings onto trucks, and others feeding...

 Health authorities in northern Syria have recorded 424 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday. The total number of cases in the opposition-held north-west of Syria has jumped to around 11,852 since the start of the pandemic as at least 4455 cases have been recovered, according...

The health system in Syria’s northwest is on the verge of collapse, doctors have warned, as the opposition-held region sees a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in overcrowded camps. Salem Abdan, director of Idlib’s health directorate, said the enclave has been recording around 400 new...

Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a "massacre" in Ethiopia's Tigray region that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party. The "massacre" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict...