Filming on his phone inside Egypt’s Hussainiya hospital, Ahmed Mamdouh pans around the ward to show beds occupied by motionless bodies. “All the people are dead,” he says. Mamdouh’s own relative had just died, for which he blames a lack of medical oxygen. In another video, a...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities tightened a nationwide lockdown Monday, including an 11-day, 24-hour curfew, amid a dramatic surge in coronavirus infections and growing criticism of uncoordinated policies many blame for the spread of the virus. News of the restrictions to be implemented...

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh vowed Monday to sue countries that import goods manufactured inside illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. “Dealing with [Israeli] settlements is against international law,” Shtayyeh told a weekly cabinet meeting in the...

At least two people were assassinated in as many days, with 43 injured, including safety members, and 30 arrested in protests in Zikar province Iraq, according to the country's top human-rights watchdog. In addition to assassinations and kidnappings, security forces' use of tear gas,...