A United Arab Emirates company is nearing the end of Phase III clinical trials of a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine and hopes to manufacture it next year, a representative said. The trial, which began in mid-July, is a partnership between Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has acknowledged that he would personally like to receive Russia’s vaccine against coronavirus. Speaking to the Russian news outlet Sputnik, Al-Assad addressed having a vaccine available in Syria, saying that in the context of the ongoing pandemic...

The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry yesterday accused Armenia of using mercenaries from Syria and Lebanon to fight alongside its forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency quoted the head of the International Military Cooperation Department in the...

The United Nations on Thursday called for an immediate end to clashes near Yemen’s main port of Hodeidah after a surge in fighting that sources said have killed dozens of people despite a U.N.-sponsored ceasefire in place in the area. Hodiedah governorate has seen sporadic, limited...