Coronavirus cases in the wider Middle East from Morocco to Pakistan have topped two million, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The caseload for the 21 countries has more than doubled since July 1, the UN agency said. Regional director Ahmed Mandhari warned that even...

Palestinian grape farmers are boasting a bumper crop this year, helped in part by coronavirus lockdowns that gave many of them more time to till their vines in the occupied West Bank. But the pandemic's economic ravages have also slashed sales of the fruit, depressing the hilly breadbasket...

A brigadier General was killed Thursday by unknown gunmen in southern Daraa province, following a series of snap attacks against regime army personnels and allied militants, activists told Zaman al -Wasl. The attack took place near the town of Busra al-Harir in the eastern countryside...

India on Thursday recorded its biggest one-day COVID-19 case rise yet, with nearly 96,000 fresh cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total number to date to 4.4 million. Indian Health Ministry figures Thursday morning showed that 95,735 new cases and 1,172 deaths were recorded in the...