Pakistan's US-requested mediation efforts between Gulf rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran have been making slow progress, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Monday. Prompted by Washington, former cricket great Khan in October visited Tehran and Riyadh to facilitate talks after attacks on Gulf oil...

 One person is dying from COVID-19 every seven minutes in Iran, state television said Monday, as the Health Ministry reported 215 new deaths from the disease and state media warned of a lack of proper social distancing. Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari was quoted by the state...

The World Health Organization warned Monday that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a "silver bullet" for COVID-19, and the road to normality would be long. More than 18.14 million people around the world are reported to have been infected with the disease and...

Militants and allied rebels in northwestern Syria killed at least 12 pro-regime fighters Monday, thwarting a regime advance, a Britain-based war monitoring group said. Another 17 pro-regime fighters were wounded while on the rebel-led side six fighters died, said the Britain-based group...