At least 12 people died of COVID-19 on Tuesday in northwestern Syria, topping the death toll to 1124 since the pandemic spread in the opposition-held areas, a local health facility said Wednesday.  The Early Warning and Epidemic Response Network has also recorded 1,270 infections in...

In northern Syria, a decade of war has left water and sanitation infrastructure damaged and neglected. More than three million people—many of whom have already been displaced from their homes by conflict—now face a water crisis that has dire health consequences. “Even when water is...

 Warplanes attacked Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria on Sunday, killing and wounding about 20, an opposition war monitor and pro-regime media said. The airstrike struck a position in an area near the town of Afrin. It came amid increasing tensions between regime...

 A Syrian man has died after swallowing gasoline he was siphoning out of his vehicle’s tank with a plastic tube, Lebanon’s national news agency reported Saturday. Lebanon is witnessing a paralyzing fuel shortage that has driven the public to hoard gasoline and resort to black-market...