People infected with the new coronavirus may start spreading the virus several days before they have any noticeable symptoms, according to a new modelling study published Wednesday. The study comes as nations have broadened restrictions aimed at curbing the epidemic, amid concerns over...

In a hospital in the Yemeni city of Taiz, medics scarred by five years of war are marshaling scant resources to face a new enemy. The coronavirus epidemic has yet to make clear inroads in Yemen, with the little testing that has been done uncovering just one confirmed case. But aid groups...

With 94 new deaths reported in Iran, the death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 4,777, state media said on Wednesday. The Iranian state TV reported Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, as saying that 1,512 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24...

A Syrian activist, who witnessed regime’s chemical attacks on Hama province, said hope was last to hold the Assad regime accountable for those attacks in Ltamenah town in March 2017. Mahmud Hamawi, who has archived the attacks of the Bashar al-Assad regime and his allies since the...