US: With the United States grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state's largest single-day increase in positive cases. Deaths from the virus have also been rising in the US, especially in the...

Teachers in the Kurdish-held part of eastern Deir Ezzor province have refused to replace the UNICEF curricula with a Kurdish educational program in the elementary schools, activists said Sunday. The curriculum is promoting the Kurdish militant movement and personalities in a region that...

The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 20,000 people across the Middle East, half of them in Iran, according to an AFP tally at 1000 GMT Sunday based on official tolls. But despite having 907,736 reported infections and 20,005 deaths from the COVID-19 illness, the Middle East...

At least 10 pro-Iran militants were killed Sunday in a Daesh (ISIS) attack in the eastern countryside of Homs province, local news site said.  Daesh jihadists have stormed Iran-run bastions near the town of al-Sukhna, leaving dozens more wounded.  Most of the slain...