German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised at home and abroad for her reaction to the coronavirus crisis, but as voices of discontent grow louder, support for the government's strategy could be on the wane. Though Germany began to lift lockdown measures last week, Merkel has urged...

From the United Kingdom to India, lockdowns aimed at containing Covid-19 are threatening nations’ abilities to secure food, as migrant workers are cut off from crops. Lebanon, like many countries, closed its land borders after the novel coronavirus began to spread among its...

More than four million students in Syria confined at home due to the coronavirus will not resume classes this year but will advance to the next grade, the government said Sunday. The decision was taken weeks after schools were closed in mid-March to combat the spread of the virus, leaving...

Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday. Iran, one of the Middle Eastern countries hardest hit by the pandemic, will be divided up into...