Turkey ordered citizens to stay at home for 48 hours across 31 cities starting midnight Friday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, immediately triggering panic-buying in some cities. The interior ministry said in a statement the order would last until midnight (2100 GMT) on...

Yemen, which Friday announced its first coronavirus case, is wracked by a war which has killed tens of thousands and caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations. The war between Huthi rebels and pro-government troops escalated in March 2015, when a...

With an aircraft carrier forced into port and nuclear missile crews hit by COVID-19, the US military wants rivals to understand: don't test us, we have not been weakened. Statement after statement from the Pentagon has sought to deliver that message amid questions this week over whether the...

Kareem Zukari has endured a lot during the nine years of Syria’s war. There have been missiles and bullets, loved ones killed, and the fear of being conscripted into the army or tortured in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons. But no matter how bad things got, there was always food. “Now...