More than 40 members of UN staff and their families have caught coronavirus in Syria, a UN official told AFP Tuesday, warning the illness was spreading in the war-torn country. There were about 200 people including "staff and dependents, spouses, children, parents, who have displayed...

The United States on Tuesday expanded its sanctions on Lebanon, blacklisting the former finance and transport ministers and accusing them of providing material and financial help to Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah, following a powerful blast last month in Beirut that left the country...

Turkish security forces have arrested a suspect of the 2013 attack in the Reyhanli district of Turkey's southern Hatay province, the country's interior minister announced Tuesday. Ercan Bayat had been listed in the blue category with a bounty of 3 million Turkish liras ($400,850) in the...

Two more Spanish towns are being cordoned off due to growing novel coronavirus outbreaks, as the Ministry of Health reported nearly 9,000 new infections on Tuesday. Over the last two weeks, 110,996 new infections have been diagnosed -- a number that keeps on ballooning. The last two...