The United States is 'outraged' by Monday's rocket attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed five civilians, US State Department said Tuesday, urging Iraqi authorities to take immediate action to hold the perpetrators accountable. "We have made the point before that the actions of...

Saudi Arabia has said it arrested 10 members of a "terrorist cell", some of whom underwent military and explosives training at Revolutionary Guard camps in Iran. Security authorities said that weapons and explosives stored at a house and a farm were seized, but did not say where the raid or...

Iran's confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed the 450,000 threshold Tuesday with 3,677 infections identified in the last 24 hours, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV, as the Islamic Republic's death toll spiked to 25,986. Sima Sadat Lari said 207 people had died in the past 24 hours and...

An Iranian dissident who fled his country fearing arrest has fallen foul of politics and COVID-19 restrictions in ethnically split Cyprus. Since mid-September, Omid Tootian has been living in a small tent in Cyprus’s buffer zone, a United Nations-controlled slice of territory carved out...