Commercial flights between Turkey and Iran have been suspended as fears grow the coronavirus is spreading, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of Turkey said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “Passenger...

Iran’s Deputy Health Minister, Iraj Harirchi, urged the state judiciary to temporarily release political prisoners to prevent them getting infected with the coronavirus, and allow them to spend the...

The United States announced on Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey for supporting Iran’s missile program, Reuters reports....

Turkey will quarantine for 14 days its citizens returning from Iran amid coronavirus fears, the health minister said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. “A special flight has been organized for...

A number of Gulf states have imposed flight restrictions as they try to deal with new cases of the coronavirus

Despite their public hostility, Israel and Iran cooperated militarily against Saddam Hussain’s Iraq during the 1980s Iraq-Iran war, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has claimed. Straw, who served...

A court in Saudi Arabia has issued preliminary sentences for eight Saudi nationals, charging them with spying for Iran and monitoring two foreign embassies in the kingdom, reports Al-Arabiya....

Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s Najaf city, Anadolu reports. Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in...

Iran was the first country in the Middle East to declare deaths related to the virus

Lebanon has officially reduced the number of flights to and from coronavirus infected countries, after some blamed Iran for its first case of the virus. Lebanese authorities confirmed the...

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a “temporary precautionary measure” after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

Some 800 Kuwaitis have been evacuated from the Iranian city of Mashhad onboard six flights following the outbreak of the coronavirus, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Abdullah Al-Sanad,...

Syrian regime’s leadership has threatened to respond to any breach on the Syrian airspace, local media reported yesterday. “The Syrian forces would respond to any infiltration of the country’s...

Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in...

The Houthis announced on Sunday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the unveiling of four new air defence systems. The Houthi news agency, Saba, stated that the head of the...

Iran on Sunday announced a 42% turnout in its parliamentary election, the lowest rate since the 1979 Islamic revolution, while its top leader said Tehran’s enemies played up the...

Turkey has closed its border with Iran and halted incoming flights as a precaution to stop the potential spread of coronavirus after the neighbouring country reported 43 cases of...

Iraq has extended an entry ban for any non-Iraqis coming from Iran, the prime minister said, as authorities in Tehran announced 15 more cases of coronavirus and a death...

Iran has confirmed 15 new cases of the new coronavirus, taking the total to 43 with a death toll of eight, reports Reuters. Most of the infections have been...

Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns...

There are early signs that another uprising, or Intifada, will erupt in occupied Palestine. A couple of weeks ago, a spokesperson of the Gaza-based Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing...

Kuwaiti Airways has suspended all its flights to Iran since Friday after reports of an outbreak of coronavirus in the country, QNA reported. In a statement, the airways confirmed:...

The United States blacklisted five Iranian officials on Thursday, accusing them of preventing free and fair elections a day before a parliamentary vote that it branded a “sham”, according...

The global dirty money watchdog placed Iran on its blacklist on Friday after it failed to comply with international anti-terrorism financing norms, a move that will deepen the country’s...

Since the first stages of European colonisation of the Middle East, as with other imperial powers elsewhere, there has been resistance in one form or another. This has been...

Iranians cast their ballot in the 11th parliamentary elections today. A total of 55,000 polling stations opened across the country at 8am to serve the nearly 58 million elible...

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), known locally as the Hashd Al-Shaabi, has named Abu Fadak Al-Mohammedawi as its new deputy commander following the assassination of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis alongside...

Iraq’s south-eastern province of Maysan decided to close its border with Iran yesterday over fears of the coronavirus spreading into the country. It was reported by local media in...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday arrived in Saudi Arabia where he is scheduled to discuss a number of issues including regional security and ways to confront...

Chief adviser to Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Balali, on Wednesday claimed that as many as 120 US soldiers were killed in air strikes launched by the...

'I won't vote for my own oppressors'

Saudi Arabia has agreed to finance Arab forces backed by the US in Syria to confront the Iranian expansion efforts in northeastern Syria, Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper reported. The paper...