Iran declared "full-scale war" with coronavirus as it reported a record death toll Wednesday for a second straight day and surging infections overload a health care system struggling with US sanctions. The Middle East's worst-hit country recorded 415 deaths in 24 hours. "This is the...

The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees it will allow to resettle in the United States in the coming year, capping the number at 15,000, a record low in the history of the country’s modern refugee program. President Donald Trump finalized his plan in a memo overnight...

A local network reported that, since the beginning of this year, 77 “settlement” volunteers in the loyalist militias and regime soldiers from the eastern and western countryside of Damascus, have been killed in the fighting in northern Syria. The “Sawt al Asima” network said that...

All politicians have opponents, but Boris Johnson’s list is exceptional. Amid a global pandemic, Britain’s prime minister is battling the European Union, a resurgent political opposition, angry English mayors and a beloved soccer star who wants to feed poor children. Even previously...