Lebanon's foreign minister summoned the German ambassador Tuesday to explain Berlin's decision last week to ban the Shi'ite Hezbollah movement on its soil. Germany also classified the Iranian-backed movement as terrorist, a step which Hezbollah's foe Israel has long urged along with the...

The death toll from the outbreak of new coronavirus in Iran rose by 63 in the past 24 hours to 6,340, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a statement on state TV on Tuesday. The total number of diagnosed cases of the new coronavirus in Iran, one of the countries hardest hit...

Lebanon is set to extend its lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus by two weeks until May 24 with the prime minister warning on Tuesday that a failure to comply with a gradual easing of restrictions risked a second wave of infections. Lebanon has recorded 740 cases of the novel...

The holy Muslim month of Ramadan is proving particularly lonely and challenging for 30 Moroccan doctors and nurses who have been living in a luxury hotel now for nearly seven weeks to avoid the risk of infecting their families with the new coronavirus. They shuttle back and forth every day...