Campaigning officially ended on Thursday for Iran’s parliamentary election, state media said, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the Islamic republic The vote to pick 290 lawmakers is Iran’s first since U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out...

The death toll in China from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 2,120, the country’s National Health Commission said Thursday. The commission said there are 11,864 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, now known as COVID-19, while more than 126,000 people are currently under...

Afghanistan's former vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful warlord who has long held undue sway over the country's politics, called on his supporters Wednesday to take to the streets to protest against the re-election of President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani on Tuesday was declared winner...

A Syrian commercial flight landed at Aleppo airport Wednesday from Damascus, marking the resumption of internal flights between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012. The flight carrying Syrian officials and journalists was a symbolic message from President Bashar Assad's...