All mosques in Iran will reopen temporarily on Tuesday, a further step in the government’s plans to ease restrictions that aimed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the official IRIB news agency reported. The decision to reopen the mosques was made in consultation with the...

 Lebanon will begin negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in the next two days, the finance minister said Tuesday, after Beirut officially requested IMF assistance this month. "There is contact with the IMF and in the coming two days we will start the negotiation...

The Israeli army suffered its first fatality this year on Tuesday when a Palestinian stonethrower killed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, a day before US-Israeli talks on annexation. The army said the 21-year-old soldier was hit in the head "during operational activity" in the village...

In the harshly-lit corridors of a Beirut hospital, a team of nurses has been snapping pictures with their mobile phones of life behind the scenes of the battle against the coronavirus. The images taken at the Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital and selected by AFP for a photo project offer a...