The G7 group of world’s major economic powers and the EU on Wednesday released a joint statement to denounce the coup in Myanmar and called on the military to release all those “unjustly detained”. “We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United...

 From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse - silent, windows shut. After 6 p.m., one knock on its steel-plated doors and a portal is opened to a different world rarely found in Iraq’s capital. Bodyguards...

The arrival and rollout of vaccines in war ravaged Syria may initially cover only 3% of the population in the first phase, a World Health Organization official said Tuesday. Akjemal Magtymova, said Syria is eligible to receive the vaccine for free through the global COVAX effort, aimed...

Concerns are growing about the treatment of a prominent Syrian media activist after he was arrested by Turkish-backed rebel forces in northern Syria last month. Hayyan Ibrahim Hababa, a media activist and father of three, was picked up in the city of Azaz on 21 January by security...