War-ravaged Syria on Sunday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus after weeks of rejecting opposition allegations that the disease had already reached a country with a wrecked health system and thousands of Iranian-backed militias and Shi’ite pilgrims. Health Minister Nizar...

A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was "martyred" in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died. The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a "defender of Sayida Zainab shrine," the...

  The Iranian media outlets said on Sunday that 21 Shiite fighters have been killed in Turkish drone strikes last Friday.  The death toll included 18 fighters with the Pakistani Zainabiyoun Brigade and three with the Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade, key pro-Iran...

Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flooded central Baghdad Thursday alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr to separate the genders in the rallies. Some were veiled, others not, still more wrapped their faces in black-and-white checkered...