Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled Friday a weekend curfew introduced to halt the spread of coronavirus, pointing to concerns over the economy. Turkey has been locked down on weekends and public holidays since April, and the interior ministry said in the early hours of Friday...

The head of Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency has been convicted over publishing an article that quotes a former ambassador criticizing Tehran's "arbitrary" intelligence operations in Europe, a journalism watchdog group said Friday. It was unclear what sentence was handed down to ISNA...

Jordan said Thursday it would reopen hotels and cafes, allow sporting events without spectators and shorten a night curfew as of Saturday, further easing its coronavirus lockdown that has hit the aid-dependent economy. But Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz told reporters that while Jordan had...

 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged allies Thursday to step up funding to defeat Daesh (ISIS), despite a budget crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The United States and Italy led a meeting of 31 nations on fighting the extremists, held virtually due to precautions to stop the...