Iran Tuesday announced 71 deaths from the novel coronavirus, and said there were also more than 1,000 new cases of infection in the Islamic republic. The fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours brought to 5,877 the overall death toll from the illness in the Middle East's hardest-hit...

A militant wearing a suicide vest struck an intelligence bureau in northern Iraq Tuesday, wounding at least three members of the security personnel, Iraqi officials said, blaming the attack on Daesh. Iraqi security forces had spotted two men, one wearing an explosive vest and a driver,...

A 26-year-old protester died Tuesday from a bullet wound he sustained during overnight clashes between hundreds of anti-government demonstrators and the army in north Lebanon. Fawaz al-Samman's funeral was held in Al-Nour Square, the main protest camp in the city of Tripoli, and attended by...

President Vladimir Putin is letting his impatience show with Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad, who isn’t proving as grateful for being kept in power by Russian intervention in his country’s brutal civil war as the Kremlin leader needs him to be. Consumed at home by the twin shocks of...