Middle East / Levant

It’s the first time Lebanon has defaulted on its sovereign debt. The vote was unanimous.

Sheikholeslam was a former adviser to Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Rouhani rejected the offer made last week by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to help Iran with the outbreak.

"There is the possibility of nuclear activities and material that are not under international supervision and about which we know not the origin or the intent."

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 71, a member of the Expediency Council that advises the Supreme Leader, died at a hospital in Tehran.

The counter-strike was in response to sniper fire.

Erdogan's skill at using millions of human beings to advance his policies remains as effective as before, but this time around it will be difficult for him to repeat his parlor trick.

Turkey's forces reportedly “neutralized” more than 2,200 Syrian troops, 103 tanks and eight helicopters within the past several days.

A Syrian helicopter was shot down by Turkish forces outside Idlib on February 11 and went up in flames. Both pilots were killed.

Moscow, Tehran and Ankara are the three guarantor states at the Astana talks on Syria.

Eleven countries had closed their air and land borders with Iran as the deadly virus continues to spread. Azerbaijan now joins them.

Hezbollah officers were among the dead, according to the UK-based war monitor.

In accordance with a lucrative deal from the European Union, Ankara has blocked the refugees from leaving for Europe up to this point.

Friday prayers at the mosques in Tehran and 22 other cities were canceled, and schools and universities have been closed.

Secretary Pompeo believes peace with Taliban will succeed if they cooperate with the Afghan government.

The worst case of the spread of the coronavirus in the Middle East is in Iran.

The Likud responded Friday morning, saying: "Gantz fired his closest adviser Israel Bachar because he told the truth."

Local sources blamed Russia for the attack, but both Turkey and Damascus hesitated to officially place the blame on Moscow.

Combat helicopters fired missiles at military positions in the towns of Qataniyah and Al-Hurriyet in Quneitra province.

Iran has spent nearly one billion dollars a year to support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe.

Various reports claim the man was a senior Hezbollah operative named Imad Tawil who was entrusted with developing Iran’s infrastructure in the areas adjacent to Syria’s border with Israel.

The Umrah (the meaning in Arabic is literally '"to visit a populated place"') is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

According to Monday's reports, Iran’s Ministry of Industries (MIMT) has ordered plants and factories producing protective face masks to ramp up production.

"We will definitely be victorious against this virus in the next few weeks. But be careful; coronavirus does not discriminate."

His death came when the deposed iron-fisted ruler of Egypt couldn't have been more cognizant of his complete rejection by his former subjects.

"The Israeli warplanes targeted, from outside Syrian airspace and from over the occupied Syrian Golan, the surrounding of Damascus with a number of batches of missiles."

Both Turkey and Pakistan closed their borders with Iran, and Turkey also halted incoming flights.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed late Sunday night that fighter pilots bombed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) positions south of Damascus.

Israel Start-Up Nation will make history again in June when it becomes the first Israeli team to compete in the Tour de France.

In the past 24 hours, the Islamic Republic of Iran reported a total of five cases of the illness to the WHO, including the two in Qom who died Wednesday.