Syria

Medill News Service Published: April 17, 2020 at 7:02 p.m. ET The head of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says the agency is prioritizing humanitarian requests amid the coronavirus pandemic. Getty Images The head of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said Friday she wants to ensure…

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast said on Friday that the World Health Organisation had found the area’s first case of coronavirus earlier this month after samples were tested in Damascus. In a statement, the regional administration said a 53-year-old man had died at Qamishli National…

An Israeli drone has targeted a car carrying members of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement near Syria's border with Lebanon, according to reports. The attack on Wednesday just inside Syria caused no casualties, news agencies reported, quoting a source from Hezbollah, a Shia group backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the country's…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli drone targeted a car carrying forces from Iran-backed Hezbollah in Syria near the Lebanese border, a commander in the pro-Damascus regional alliance and a security source said. The sources said there were no casualties, with the passengers escaping before the car was hit and destroyed.…

Turkish and Russian military vehicles take part in a joint patrol in the northern Idlib province, Syria, April 15, 2020. Turkish Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Turkey held a fourth joint patrol in Syria’s Idlib region, the RIA news agency cited the Russian Reconciliation Centre for…

The last opposition-held stronghold in Syria is bracing for its fight against the coronavirus pandemic with just one machine equipped to run a test to detect the rapidly spreading pathogen. Mohamad Shahim Makki, a doctor in Idlib province, a war-battered region in northwest Syria that is home to more than three million people,…

As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. The outbreak has infected more than 1.8 million people and killed more than 112,000 around the world…

The United Nations envoys in the Middle East have urged all warring parties in the region to end hostilities and turn their focus to "the true fight of our lives" - tackling the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement on Saturday, the envoys for Syria, Yemen, Lebanon,…

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria on Thursday dismissed a report by a global watchdog that said Syrian jets had carried out a series of chemical attacks on an opposition-held town, under orders from the top military command. The report from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syrian…

Aid groups are concerned about the possibility of the coronavirus pandemic reaching rebel-held Idlib city in Syria. Fears continue in the rebel-held Idlib city of northwest Syria as the pandemic sweeps the world. Its population lives under extreme shortages of medicine, and supplies in its hospitals have been depleted by…