Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday arrested six Palestinians in separate areas of the West Bank. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the occupation forces stormed the cities of Tulkarm and Hebron and the town of Al-Issawiya, north of ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the mechanisms it uses to monitor the performance of various countries in relation to their handling of the coronavirus epidemic do not show any cover-up by the Iranian government with regard to Iran’s virus c...
The total number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States jumped by two dozen over the weekend, as the first two deaths from the outbreak were confirmed. New cases of the virus were announced in Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington state, and Fl...
The Kremlin said Monday that cooperation with Turkey is a top priority, confirming a meeting between the Russian and Turkish presidents on Thursday over escalating tensions in Syria. Russia attaches “great importance to cooperation with our Turkish...
Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Tawfiq Allawi has withdrawn his candidacy after the parliament failed to approve his new government. Allawi asked the Iraqi presidency to excuse him from forming a new government in a speech on Sunday. He ad...
Zionist settlers uprooted 200 olive trees from Palestinian lands near the village of Al-Mughair, east of Ramallah in the West Bank. Palestinian sources reported that the “Adi Aad” settlers, who were on the village’s lands, had uprooted olive seedlin...
The Assistant Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council for International Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said that it may emerge later that the spread of the Coronavirus is an US biological war against its major global competitors (China and Russia)....
Washington and Kabul said in a joint statement on Saturday that the United States and its allies will withdraw all their forces from Afghanistan within 14 months if the Taliban abide by an agreement due to be signed in Doha on Saturday. After an ini...
The US and the Taliban agreed to swap thousands of prisoners in a “confidence building measure” as part of a landmark deal on Afghanistan’s future signed in Doha on Saturday. “Up to 5,000 prisoners of the (Taliban)… and 1,000 prisoners of the other...
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 ...