Observers say the regime of  Bashar al-Assad is using the coronavirus crisis to exploit prevention measures to consolidate its control. Syria’s health ministry has so far reported 59 cases of COVID-19, with three deaths, accounting only for people in areas under Assad’s...

Hong Kong's political crisis returned to centre stage on Monday as clashes erupted in the legislature and a group of prominent pro-democracy activists were charged for taking part in last year's huge protests. Four months of calm imposed by mass arrests and the coronavirus pandemic has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 350 displaced people have turned without a shelter as a blaze destroyed 60 makeshift tents in Sadaqa camp in northern Idlib province, head of the camp told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. Anwar Nasouh said at least 60 families need help after the fire took hold at the...

At least two civilians were killed in seven fire outbreaks in the last three weeks in the tent camps at the Turkey-Syria border zone, according to a local official on Sunday. Mohammad Hallaj, the director of Syria's Response Coordination Group, told Anadolu Agency that the gas cylinders...