Saudi Arabia kicked off a three-phase Covid-19 vaccination programme Thursday, with the health minister among those inoculated after the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in the kingdom. Along with Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah, a woman in a wheelchair and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia supplied 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Syria as humanitarian aid since the start of 2020 and plans to ship more, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. Syria’s economy has been strained by a complex, multi-sided conflict now in its...

A Syrian health organization on Thursday has mourned doctor Mohamed Al-Youssef who died from coronavirus in Turkish hospitals. The SAMS medical relief organization laments the loss of Al-Youssef, 36, who worked with them in the opposotion-held areas in northern Syria as a director of...

Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID-19 investigators due to travel to China in January, said the World Health Organization (WHO), which is leading the mission. China has strongly opposed calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, saying such...