The Washington Post reported , Saturday, that in the annals of disastrous revolutions, the popular uprising that swept the Middle East in 2011 now appears to be among the worst. The so-called Arab Spring disrupted tyrannies — a good thing, except whe...
Iran has dismissed a "hypocritical" claim made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about making an offer to Tehran to help the Islamic Republic fight the new coronavirus, saying such remarks pursue political purposes and aim to distract the world pu...
Saudi Arabia says it has temporarily suspended entry for individuals aiming to perform Umrah pilgrimage or to visit the Prophet's Mosque in Medina over concerns of the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. The Ministry of Foreign Affair...
The Norwegian Directorate of Health expects up to one in four Norwegians to be infected with the coronavirus COVID-19. This may result in other necessary hospital treatment being postponed. Directorate of Health head Bjørn Guldvog commented on the ...
US Democratic presidential candidates attacked Republican President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday, as US authorities face growing criticism for not doing enough to prevent a widespread outbreak of the virus. Trump...
Iraq’s Ministry of Health and Environment said Thursday that it has detected a sixth case of coronavirus for a young Iraqi man in Baghdad who returned home from Iran. The number of cases recorded for the new the virus has jumped to 80,988 in 33 coun...
Zionist enemy forces launched on Thursday a campaign of raids and arrests in separate parts of the occupied West Bank, amid confrontations. Palestinian sources reported that the enemy forces arrested an released prisoner after raiding and searching h...
Italy’s new coronavirus spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as authorities reported a surge in the number of infected people and Rome convened emergency talks with European health ministers. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has blamed poor ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the apparent frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, said he would not attend this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, saying that the group offers a platform to leaders who “express bigo...
Iran has denounced the Israeli regime’s attacks on civilians and targets of the resistance front in Gaza and Syria, criticizing the international community’s inaction on Tel Aviv’s repeated atrocities in Palestine and its violation of the neighboring...
The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (OSESGY) is hosting a consultative meeting with a group of Yemeni public and political figures in Amman, Jordan, on 26-27 February 2020. The meeting brings together a diverse group ...
A top U.S. health official said the spread of coronavirus in the country now appears to be inevitable. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, t...
The Egyptian Presidency’s Office on Tuesday announced three-day mourning throughout the country over the death of the former Egyptian president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, according to a spokesman for the presidency office. Mubarak died on Tuesday at th...
Iran's Health Ministry says the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 12, while the number of confirmed infections stands at 64. The ministry's spokesman Iraj Harirchi was speaking at a press conference in Tehran on Mon...
Experts from the World Health Organization have visited the locked-down central Chinese city at the epicentre of the deadly global coronavirus outbreak, Chinese authorities said Monday. The trip over the weekend is the first reported visit to Wuhan...
The second round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission (JMC) talks to reach a lasting ceasefire and to restore security to civilian areas concluded on 23 February at the Palace of Nations in Geneva. The talks took place in the presence of and...
Israeli jets have bombed several locations across the Gaza Strip after Palestinian resistance groups fired rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the murder of a Palestinian earlier in the day. The Palestinian Information Center reported early ...
A number of human rights centers have renewed their call to international human rights and humanitarian societies and organizations for an international investigations on the Razeen Prison. It is classified as the third worst Arab prison, and is loca...
The main stock exchanges’ shares in Saudi Arabia on Sunday continued to record heavy losses for the second day in a row, affected by the recent attacks on Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The index of Saudi stock exchange fell 0.3 percent, as the shares ...
South Korea raised its alert on the coronavirus to the highest level Sunday after reporting three more deaths and 169 new infections. The country has seen a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases since a cluster of infections emerged from a...