Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al Razzaz said Wednesday the government would soon ease a tight lockdown imposed to stem the spread of coronavirus by allowing more businesses and industries to return to work. However, it will not yet lift a curfew imposed nearly a month ago that restricts the...

Iran said Wednesday the world is learning that the United States "kills people", after President Donald Trump suspended U.S. funding for the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has accused the U.N. body of covering up the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and parliament speaker Benny Gantz faced a midnight deadline Wednesday to form a unity government or risk prolonging the country's unprecedented political crisis. The right-wing premier Netanyahu and centrist Gantz, Israel's former army chief, have...

With 94 new deaths reported in Iran, the death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 4,777, state media said on Wednesday. The Iranian state TV reported Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, as saying that 1,512 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24...