An Iranian lawmaker reportedly has told colleagues to stop their contact with public as there are 23 cases of the new coronavirus among parliament members. That’s according to lawmaker Abdolreza Mesri, who was quoted by Iranian state television’s Young Journalists Club program. The...

At a maternity hospital in northwest Syria, an alarm flashes at the main entrance to alert staff. It’s not patients en route to the hospital. It’s warplanes. Doctors at the hospital face a daily struggle to care for expectant mothers amid a Syrian government assault that has driven deep...

 Iraqi security forces killed one person and wounded 24 at an anti-government protest in Baghdad Sunday, a police source said. The person was killed by birdshot fired from a hunting rifle and some of the injuries were caused by birdshot and tear gas, the source added.

Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian regime forces. SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that...