A US military convoy advances near the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh province, via the border with Turkey, April 14, 2020. (Photo by AFP) US forces have reportedly dispatched a …
Kuwait has 93 new cases, infections now total 1,751
Expatriates returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon arrive to be re-tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City. — File photo …
Syria virus death traced to Kurdish-run northeast region
An email from the World Health Organization obtained by The Associated Press says a 53-year-old man in Syria’s Kurdish-administered northeast died earlier this month from COVID-19, the disease caused …
The coronavirus could kill 100,000 people in Syria’s embattled Idlib region, sped on by cramped, unhygienic camps and a lack of testing
You want us to wash our hands? Some people can’t wash their kids for a week. They are living outdoors,” Fadi Mesaher told The New York Times.
Kurdish-led region in northeast Syria reports first case
Reuters The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast reported the area’s first case of coronavirus It said samples had been tested in Damascus earlier this month. The regional administration …
Turkey Presses on With Military Campaigns in Iraq and Syria Despite Coronavirus Woes
Turkish and Turkey-backed forces targeted Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and Syria, even as the United Nations and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a global truce.
The WHO doesn’t only have a China problem — it has a dictator problem
For example, Syria’s blood bank is controlled by its defense ministry, which cannot procure blood because it is heavily sanctioned — so the WHO supplies it directly. That same …
In Syria, online salsa class sidesteps lockdown gloom
Inside her living room in the Syrian capital, Aline Srouji steps forward and backward at a near-dizzying pace, demonstrating to her students locked down at home how to Salsa. Performing to a phone …
Coronavirus could kill 100,000 in Syria’s last rebel enclave, officials warn
Doctor working in war-torn Idlib province says it’s “impossible” to self-isolate in the crowded camps for displaced Syrians, so if COVID-19 arrives, “it would be a disaster.” …
Turkish, Russian forces patrol key Syria corridor to uphold cease-fire
April 15 (UPI) –Military forces of Turkey and Russia on Wednesday made their fourth joint ground patrol in the past month in Syria’s heavily contested northwest to monitor a cease-fire, officials …