The spread of coronavirus to Syria brings the prospect of a deadly outbreak to a population devastated by nine years of war, with ravaged hospitals and tightly-packed camps likely to accelerate infection, doctors and aid workers said on Monday. The Syrian government announced on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have arrested at least 63 men in eastern Deir Ezzor province in a campaign tracking young people who escaped the military service, local activists said Monday. The arrest campaign have also included wanted people in the oil-rich province which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian military convoy has been sent to reinforce regime army bastions in Idlib province despite a ceasefire deal reached early March in northwestern Syria, rebel source said Tuesday. The regime trucks were carrying 200 troops operating in the 25th Special Missions...

A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints...

Hand-washing to combat the spread of coronavirus is the order of the day, but it's an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. Yemen's broken healthcare system has yet to register any cases of the disease, but if the pandemic does hit,...

Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases. The army has been charged with...

Turkey imposed restrictions on Tuesday on grocery store opening hours and numbers of shop customers and bus passengers, adding to steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus after the country’s death toll from the illness rose to 37. Ankara has already closed schools, cafes and bars,...

A dozen countries in the Middle East and Central Asia have asked the International Monetary Fund for financial support in dealing with the coronavirus, and the Kyrgyz Republic is likely to receive the first emergency disbursement, the fund said. Governments should spare no expense to help...

Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies will convene a video conference on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus epidemic, multiple sources told Reuters, amid criticism that the group has been slow to respond to the global crisis. G20 finance ministers and central bankers agreed during a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five Syrian football players suffered from Coronavirus symptoms last December during their participation in the International China Friendly Tournament which held in Beijing, according to a report premiered in January. At the time, doctors told the players that...

Formula One expects to run a shortened season of 15-18 grands prix once racing can resume after the coronavirus pandemic, hopefully during the European summer, chairman and chief executive Chase Carey said on Monday. The original 2020 calendar had a record 22 races but the season has yet to...

Anxiety ratcheted up across New York, the epicenter of America's coronavirus pandemic, Monday with streets eerily quiet at the start of the working week as officials warn the crisis will worsen. As the number of deaths in the United States from COVID-19 soars towards 500, the Big Apple...

French design houses Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga will shift their attentions from high fashion to producing surgical face masks to aid the global coronavirus assault, their parent company Kering said. "The French workshops of Kering's houses Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent are...

Police in the Italian city of Bergamo have brought much-needed help to people suffering from the coronavirus by redistributing oxygen cylinders used by people who did not survive the virus. Bergamo, in the northern Lombardy region, is now Italy's worst-affected province, with over 6,000...

Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar remain the three best-paid footballers in the world, according to a study by France Football magazine. The study estimates the income of the world's highest-paid players by adding their estimated gross salaries and income from image rights to...

The new coronavirus pandemic is clearly "accelerating", the World Health Organization warned Monday, but said it was still possible to change its trajectory by going on the attack. The remarks came as the number of deaths soared past 15,000, with more than 341,000 people infected worldwide,...

French health authorities reported 186 new deaths from coronavirus on Monday, taking the total to 860 or an increase of 28 percent, with the toll rising more sharply than the last three days as the country is about to enter its second week of lockdown. At a press conference Monday, Health...

Testing for the novel coronavirus is to start within days in northwest Syria, the World Health Organisation said Monday, amid fears of a disaster if the pandemic reached overcrowded displacement camps. Some three million people are trapped in the rebel enclave of Idlib in the country's...

A court run by Yemen's Huthi rebels has upheld the death sentence of a Baha'i over his religion in defiance of international appeals, the community said Monday. Hamed bin Haydara, who has been detained since 2013, was not allowed into Sunday's hearing in the capital Sanaa that rejected his...

The European Union will send €20 million in humanitarian aid to Iran, which is subject to US sanctions, to help alleviate the coronavirus outbreak, and will support Tehran's request for IMF financial help, the EU's top diplomat said Monday. "We've not been able to provide a lot of...