A Saudi man was arrested in Jeddah after attacking and injuring a guard with a “sharp tool” at the French consulate on Thursday, Saudi state TV reported. The French Embassy said the consulate was subject to an “attack by knife which targeted a guard”, adding the guard was taken to...

Iran declared "full-scale war" with coronavirus as it reported a record death toll Wednesday for a second straight day and surging infections overload a health care system struggling with US sanctions. The Middle East's worst-hit country recorded 415 deaths in 24 hours. "This is the...

A local network reported that, since the beginning of this year, 77 “settlement” volunteers in the loyalist militias and regime soldiers from the eastern and western countryside of Damascus, have been killed in the fighting in northern Syria. The “Sawt al Asima” network said that...

Turkey's leader said Wednesday that Western countries mocking Islam wanted to "relaunch the Crusades", heightening a confrontation with France over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have stirred anger in Muslim-majority countries. In a speech to lawmakers of his AK Party in parliament,...