Russia's coronavirus case tally, the second highest in the world, passed 300,000 Wednesday, but a representative from the World Health Organization (WHO) said the situation was starting to stabilize. Russia's 8,764 new novel coronavirus infections took the nationwide total to 308,705. But...

The Iranian navy will maintain regular missions in the Gulf, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday, a day after the United States warned mariners there to stay away from U.S. warships. "The naval units of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman will...

President Donald Trump emphatically defended himself Tuesday against criticism from medical experts that his announced use of a malaria drug against the coronavirus could spark wide misuse by Americans of the unproven treatment with potentially fatal side effects. Trump's revelation a day...

 Observers say the regime of  Bashar al-Assad is using the coronavirus crisis to exploit prevention measures to consolidate its control. Syria’s health ministry has so far reported 59 cases of COVID-19, with three deaths, accounting only for people in areas under Assad’s...