Lebanon on Sunday started repatriating nationals stranded abroad in its first flight in weeks since it closed its international airport to stem the novel coronavirus. The first of four planes touched down at the Beirut international airport late Sunday morning bringing in 78 passengers from...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in Hezbollah militia was stabbed and gunned to death in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Sunday, saying a suspect ha been arrested. Younis was found dead in his car on the road connecting the towns of Qaaqaaiyet El Jisr and...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned 5,654 prisoners and ordered measures to protect inmates from the coronavirus outbreak, the justice ministry said Sunday. The inmates were selected on the basis of their age, frail health, time spent in prison and good conduct, the ministry said in a...

Iraq has thousands of confirmed COVID-19 cases, many times more than the 772 it is has publicly reported, according to three doctors closely involved in the testing process, a health ministry official and a senior political official. The sources all spoke on condition of anonymity. Iraqi...