A single machine at Mohamad Shahim Makki’s medical centre in Idlib province, part of Syria’s last rebel stronghold, is the only alarm that will sound when the coronavirus strikes a population of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Makki’s Epidemiological Surveillance...

The Middle East and North Africa economy will contract by 3.3 percent this year, the biggest slump in four decades, hammered by the coronavirus and low oil prices, the IMF said Tuesday. In its World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund said the damage would be much worse than...

Bahrain has turned a car park near the capital Manama into an intensive care unit with 130 beds for patients infected with the novel coronavirus, in a first in the Gulf. The new ICU in the covered car park was set up as a precautionary measure in case of a spike in cases of the COVID-19...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Response Coordination Team has recorded 109 ceasefire violations by Russian-led regime forces in northern Syria since last March.    The local monitoring group, in statement issued Tuesday, has warned that the renewal of military operations will...