Air raid sirens echoed Saturday across Jordan's capital to mark the start of a three-day curfew, the latest mass lockdown in the Middle East aimed at containing the coronavirus, which has claimed another 123 lives in Iran, home to the region's worst outbreak. The latest deaths bring...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese lawyers along with Syrian activists launched an appeal to the Lebanese government to approve general amnesty law for all Lebanese prisons for fear of the spread of the Covid19 virus as Lebanon’s coronavirus cases rose to 201, according to the Health Ministry....

The United States has been ‘enormously disappointed’ with the Iraqi government’s performance in fulfilling its obligation to protect U.S.-led coalition forces inside the country, a senior State Department official said on Friday. The Iraqi government has told the United States that...

Iran and France have agreed to release a French citizen held in Iran, and an Iranian detained in France on charges linked to violating U.S. sanctions against Tehran, the Iranian judiciary said on its website on Friday. France has released Jalal Ruhollahnejad, an Iranian engineer wanted by...