On April 17, 2020, the authorities in northeast Syria announced the first confirmed Covid-19-related death. Skip to cookie privacy notice Skip to main content ...

March 5, 2020 More than 5 years ago. An explosion is seen during Russian airstrikes on a village in the Idlib province of Syria on Thursday. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In 2020, the pandemic and intermittent lockdowns exacerbated economic crises in Jordan and Lebanon, ... New research suggests this pressure won’t convince Syria’s 5.5 million refugees to return.

As of July 2020, about 600 U.S. troops remain in Syria, where they continue to support local partner force operations against Islamic State remnants.

ANKARA . Syria witnessed major developments in 2020, but chief among them were displacement in Idlib due to intensified attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Turkey's Operation Spring Shield.

Further evidence is emerging of rebels from Syria being recruited to fight as mercenaries in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Their saga shows America’s deep malaise about the civil war in Syria and the resulting refugee crisis. Will anything change in 2020?

Syrian security forces responded to a protest in the city of Sweida on June 15 by beating and arresting protesters demonstrating against the government’s failure to address the country’s ...

Dec. 19, 2020. Syrians living in ... For instance, the Syrian Ministry of Health reported a total of 8,580 infections as of Dec. 9, while the Security Council, relying on reports from inside the ...

The U.S. has a new mission in Syria: keeping the country's oil fields away from Syrian and Russian forces. The last ISIS stronghold in Syria fell to U.S. and Kurdish forces a year ago this month ...

An investigative team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons accused the Syrian government of launching three chemical attacks on one village in 2017. By Ben Hubbard BEIRUT ...