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...

The political fallout from Turkey’s rushed coronavirus lockdown at the weekend has exposed tensions at the top of President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party after he rejected the resignation of his interior minister. Suleyman Soylu submitted his resignation on Sunday after authorities gave...