When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group. But her initial jitters turned to fear when two fellow travelers in another facility...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two deaths due to COVID-19 have been confirmed by residents in the southern Daraa province as the Syrian regime still denying the spread of the killer pandemic. Health officials claimed that a man and a women were died of pneumonia, refusing to let their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 inmates escaped from a prison controlled by the US-backed Kurdish-led forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local news site reported Saturday. The prisoners who were charged of drug dealing and murder took advantage of the electricity outage in the Kesra...

At least 100,000 could die from the COVID-19 pandemic in northwest Syria as overcrowded camps and the decimated healthcare system make the country particularly vulnerable, medical staff on the ground have warned. "In one year, we lost around 76 health facilities in northwest Syria," Dr...