The World Health Organization will start testing for coronavirus in rebel-held northwest Syria later this week, the agency’s regional head said on Monday, adding that he was “very concerned” about the spread of the pandemic to a region where the health system has been wrecked by a long...

Hamad al-Abdallah has installed wifi and insulation in his new concrete room, trying to make the most of the desperate conditions his family has endured since fleeing Syrian regime bombardments. They were among the lucky ones to move into the new, 24-square-metre concrete homes provided by...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.   The freed families headed their homes in the village of...

In Syria's northwest, where people uprooted by war are crammed into camps, medics fear the coronavirus would spread widely if it reaches a country with its healthcare system in ruins. Doctors and aid workers say they have recorded no cases so far. But they warned that camps would not cope...