A total of 220 people accredited for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have contracted the coronavirus, organizers said on Friday. The organization committee confirmed that 27 more people, including three athletes, tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases at the games to 220. The...

Eight civilians including several children were among 23 people killed Thursday in the fiercest clashes to rock Syria’s Daraa province since it was captured by the regime, a war monitor said. Artillery shelling by regime forces on the village of Al-Yadudah, northwest of Daraa city, killed...

Lebanese firefighters are struggling for the second day to contain wildfires in the country's north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defense officials in both countries said Thursday. The fires killed at least one person, a 15-year-old boy, who was helping firefighting...

Walking through the streets of Gaziantep, Turkey, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 9-year-old Syrian refugee girl, called 'Little Amal', attracts the attention of passersby. Towering over crowds, it's the beginning of a transcontinental trip that organisers hope will bring awareness to the...