Arab and International

Lendman said, “There's no question that the Iraqis want the US out. The US has no intention of leaving. All countries it went to war against, it occupies them, it considers them permanent US sovereign territory, wants to exploit the people,…

Palestinians believe Israel is taking advantage of the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic to grab more of their lands and to escalate aggression against the people of Palestine. Head of the anti-settlement commission of…

President Trump issued a major disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, meaning that there is now such a declaration within all 50 states due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time a president has ever declared a major…

Since Saturday, 2,186 more people in Russia have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the nationwide total to 15,770, according to the emergency team in charge of managing the country's response to the deadly infection. The fresh…

Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, announces in a statement its refusal of appointing Mustafa Al-Kazimi to form the government, and considers that appointing a "suspicious" figure is waste of the people's rights and sacrifices. The Hezbollah…

More than 1.6 million people from across the world have so far been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, with the death toll surpassing 95,700, according to latest reports. The number of infections worldwide reached 1,605,279, while…

Canada is lifting a freeze on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia and has renegotiated a much-criticized $14 billion contract to sell General Dynamics Corp armored vehicles to Riyadh, Ottawa said on Thursday. The “significant improvements”…

The Secretary General of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais Khazali, considered Thursday that the violation of the constitution by the Iraqi president had caused the loss of a full month of government’s life, stressing the need for the…

The United States is now in second place in terms of the death toll from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) globally, behind Italy and ahead of Spain, according to Johns Hopkins University’s data. The number of people who have died of…

Using the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points is dangerous and will only result in “many more body bags,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, less than a day after President Trump…

Several members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family have contracted the novel coronavirus more than six weeks after the country reported its first case, a New York Times report says. Over 500 beds are being prepared at the elite hospital that…

Spain recorded Wednesday a second successive daily rise in coronavirus-related deaths with 757 fatalities, lifting the total toll in Europe’s second-hardest-hit country after Italy by 5.5 percent to 14,555. The number of new infections…

The U.S. suffered its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic yet, with nearly 2,000 deaths between Tuesday and Wednesday. The death toll now stands at 12,914, according to NBC News’ tally on Wednesday morning. It is worth noting…

Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, on Tuesday night, slammed the western capitalism’s “monstrous decadence in humanity and morality” in handling the Coronavirus crisis and their treatment of the elderly,…

The head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the occupying Israeli regime is feeling an existential threat to its political survival. “At the time being, there exists a usurping entity in the occupied Palestine,…

Not a single person died of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in mainland China over the past 24 hours, the first such day since January, according to China’s state health committee. The state committee said 32 new cases of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday wished British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, saying his “optimism and sense of humor” would help him get better. “I would like to express my sincere…

Two elderly South Korean coronavirus patients recovered from severe pneumonia after being treated with plasma from survivors, researchers said Tuesday, offering hope in the face of the global pandemic. Scientists have pointed to the…

Israeli occupation forces renewed on Tuesday targeting Palestinian farmers in the besieged southern and northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian News Agency, Ma’an, reported that the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian…

Government forces in Libya say Emirati drones have carried out two airstrikes in support of Libyan rebels near the city of Sirte. Mustafa al-Mujie, a spokesman for Libyan government forces, told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that…

The American-led international coalition forces decided on Tuesday to withdraw from the “Abu Ghraib” military base north of Baghdad, and hand them over to the Iraqi forces in the coming hours. Alsumaria News website stated that “Abu…

The US military has so far recorded 2,528 cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a rise of around 800 since Friday, the Department of Defence announced on Monday. The numbers of deaths in the US military from the virus now stands…

The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 70,009 on Monday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 1,277,580 declared cases have been registered in 191 countries…

Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will declare a state of emergency, due to the Corona virus on Tuesday, and is likely to announce plans to do so Monday. Under a law that was amended in March to…

Ramallah government spokesperson Ibrahim Melhem reported that 3 new injuries were reported in Bedouin, northwest of al-Quds, and Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, bringing the number of injuries recorded in Palestine to 237. The spokesman…

The UAE government has formally requested the postponement of World Expo 2020 Dubai, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) said in a statement on Saturday. This decision for the delay has been taken due to the impact of the…

US President Donald Trump has warned there will be “a lot of death” in the weeks ahead over the coronavirus outbreak while blasting local media outlets for “spreading false rumors” and creating “fear” and “panic” among people.…

The number of American sailors tested positive so far for the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier has surged 13 percent to 155 within the past 24 hours, the US Navy has confirmed amid the sacking of the warship’s…

Dozens of Palestinians suffocated, including children and women, during confrontations with the Zionist enemy forces in the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya Governorate, in the occupied West Bank. According to the coordinator of the…

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector shrank in March at its fastest rate on record as emergency measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak dealt a heavy blow to business, a survey showed on Sunday. The seasonally adjusted…