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National Army kills 8 regime forces south of Idlib

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces thwarted regime army incursion into southern region of Idlib province on Thursday in a new breach to the two-week-old ceasefire, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. The National Army said the regime forces backed by Shiite militias launched...

Turkish soldier killed in Idlib: governor's office

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One Turkish soldier was killed in northwestern province of Idlib, the governor’s office in Turkey’s central Sivas province said on Thursday, topping the death toll of Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib to 59 in the past five weeks. It did not provide additional...

Weakened by war and hunger, Yemen braces for coronavirus

Hunched over sewing machines in a long abandoned factory in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, 20 women stitch face masks as a country ravaged by war, hunger and disease prepares for the arrival of a new epidemic. COVID-19 has yet to be documented in Yemen, but Abdel Ilah, who manages the factory...

Yemeni women rush to sew masks in face of virus peril

More than a decade after it closed, 20 Yemeni women have revived the war-torn country's oldest factory to make face masks in anticipation of an outbreak of the new coronavirus. The situation is especially fraught because Yemen's health system has all but collapsed following years of...