GENEVA (AP) — A top official from the World Health Organization says Europe has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and the situation remains “serious,” with about 1.6 million new cases reported each week in the region. The comments by Dr. Hans Kluge on Thursday aimed to...

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing concerns over a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in their region, calling on international health organizations to intervene to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.”   A 10-day curfew went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to...

Health Directorate in the Turkish-held region of Ras al-Ain has recorded 24 coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a new wave of the pandemic in northeast Syria A medical source told Zaman al-Wasl than 24 people were tested positive for COVID-19. Five of them were admitted to the main...

The remains of Khaled al-Assaad, a Syrian archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State group jihadists, have yet to be recovered, his son told AFP on Wednesday. The official SANA news agency reported in February that authorities had uncovered three corpses in Kahloul, 10 kilometres (six...