Syria

NAIRAB, Idlib, Syria (Reuters) - Taher al-Matar’s home in northwest Syria is in ruins but he has gone back to live there anyway, driven by dire conditions in camps for displaced people, where he fears any outbreak of the coronavirus would be devastating. A woman walks past damaged buildings with…

By: Reuters | Lisbon | Updated: April 19, 2020 2:51:12 pm The picture shows food sent by Ramia Abdalghani and Alan Ghumim to health workers at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. (Picture credit: Reuters)Tired and hungry, nurse Nuno Delicado had a pleasant surprise when a local Syrian restaurant sent food…

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,…