The United Arab Emirates' cabinet approved strengthening the country's "strategic stockpile" Sunday in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the vice president and prime minister tweeted after a cabinet meeting, without specifying what goods. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is...

 Warring factions in Yemen accused each other on Sunday of attacking an oil pipeline pumping station in the central province of Marib, where clashes have raged for weeks and displaced tens of thousands of civilians. The oil ministry of the internationally-recognized, Saudi-backed...

Israel detained the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday over "illegal" activities, in at least the seventh time Adnan Ghaith has been arrested in less than 18 months. "Adnan Ghaith was detained this morning for Palestinian activity in Jerusalem, which is illegal," police spokesman...

Lebanon on Sunday started repatriating nationals stranded abroad in its first flight in weeks since it closed its international airport to stem the novel coronavirus. The first of four planes touched down at the Beirut international airport late Sunday morning bringing in 78 passengers from...