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...

Iraq has started closing camps housing tens of thousands of people, including many who fled their homes during the final battle against Islamic State, but aid groups warn this could create a second wave of displacement with dire consequences. Among those having to leave are 50-year-old Umm...

A Syrian family has set up home in an ancient Roman temple in northwest Syria to avoid the overcrowded refugee camps. Abdelaziz Al-Hassan, his wife and three children, fled Idlib after the regime and its allies intensified attacks in 2019. Between December 2019 and March 2020, one...