Aid groups working with the United Nations want the Security Council to urgently allow an Iraq border crossing into Syria to be used again for deliveries to help combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to a draft World Health Organization memo seen by the 15-member UN Security Council....

Japan is preparing to extend its state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, originally set to end on May 6, for about a month, government sources told Reuters on Thursday, even as some other countries begin to reopen after strict lockdowns. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown armed group has killed two regime forces in the southwestern province of Quneitra, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday.   The assailants have ambushed the soldiers near the village of al-Za'roura. At least 140,000 regime forces have been killed...

More than 224,000 people around the world have lost their lives from the novel coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university's study found 224,562 fatalities caused by COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, as...