The number of coronavirus deaths in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC investigation has revealed.
According to BBC's Persian service, Iranian authorities have reported significantly lower daily death numbers despite having a (...)
CAIRO — In a tit-for-tat move, Egypt canceled all its Kuwait-bound flights after the Gulf nation included Cairo on the list of 31 coronavirus "high risk" countries and suspended its flight operation until further notice.
Egypt's national carrier, (...)
ABU DHABI — Foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Iran have reviewed efforts of the two countries to contain the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, UAE's state news agency WAM reported.
In a video call on Sunday, UAE Foreign (...)
Kuwait has banned commercial flights to 31 countries, calling them high risk due to the spread of the coronavirus until further notice, the Kuwait news agency KUNA reported.
The ban was announced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the (...)
Kuwait's Council of Ministers has decided to allow citizens and residents to travel to and from the country, starting Aug. 1 (Sunday), the government communication center said in a tweet early Thursday.
The decision excludes residents coming from (...)
ليس ثمة جدال حول فداحة التحوّلات التي أصابت بعض الدول العربية، وأحدثت هزات عنيفة فيها؛ فقد شهدت المنطقة العربية تغيرات مسّت النظام العربي الإقليمي، وصدّعت العمل العربي المشترك، منذ حرب الخليج الأولى والثانية اللتين ضربتا الأمن القومي العربي في (...)
A British-Australian academic serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been moved to a remote desert prison, notorious for violence and stricken with coronavirus, according to media reports.
Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a (...)
A British-Australian academic serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been moved to a remote desert prison, notorious for violence and stricken with coronavirus, according to media reports.
Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a (...)
Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received here today US Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Brian Hook.
During the meeting, they discussed bilateral (...)
Iran reported 216 new deaths from the novel coronavirus on Sunday, calling on its citizens to observe health protocols more closely to ease the burden on exhausted medical staff.
The republic announced its first COVID-19 cases on Feb. 19, and the (...)
A German woman kidnapped in Baghdad earlier this week was freed overnight, Iraqi officials said, without providing additional details.
"Security forces have freed activist Hella Mewis," Iraq's military spokesman Yahya Rasool said in a (...)
Another fire broke out Friday in Tehran, where senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) live, state media reported.
The fire in the Iranian capital, which broke out in a park near the Shahid Daghayeghi residential complex, (...)
The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Dr. Mishaal Bin Fahim Al-Salami, has condemned the continued violations of the Iran-supported Houthi terrorist militia and its criminal acts against members of the House of Representatives of Yemen who rejected (...)
Ukraine on Friday accused Iran of illegal interference with the ill-fated passenger plane as international investigators completed a preliminary analysis from the flight recorders of the jet downed by Iran in January this year.
Commenting on the (...)
The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Dr. Mishaal bin Fahim Al-Salami, condemned the continued violations of the Iran-supported Houthi terrorist militia and its criminal acts against members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Yemen who (...)
President of the United States Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone on Thursday about the coronavirus pandemic and a potential three-country arms control deal with China and Iran's nuclear program, the Kremlin and (...)
A STUDY, promoted by the Iranian lobby in the United States, headed by Vali Nasr, concluded that Washington must halt its "endless wars" in the Middle East and should withdraw its forces and bring them back to the US!
The study was published by the (...)
US House Democrats voted on Wednesday to approve a measure that would repeal President Donald Trump administration's controversial ban of travelers from several Muslim majority countries from entering the US.
The 233-183 vote largely along party (...)
An Israeli missile strike south of the Syrian capital killed five Iran-backed fighters, a Britain-based war monitor has said.
The missile attack on Monday night hit weapons depots and military positions belonging to Syrian regime forces and (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (Masam) in Yemen dismantled a total of 1,287 mines during the second week of July, a Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report said on Tuesday.
The dismantling operation included 74 anti-personnel, 262 (...)
Yemeni Prime Minister Moeen Abdulmalik Saeed has accused Qatar of backing the Iran-backed Houthi militia and spreading chaos in his country.
"From an early stage, Doha has supported the Houthi militia with funds, weapons, media, and networks and (...)
Iran on Tuesday recorded a new single-day record death toll of 229 from the novel coronavirus, after weeks of rising numbers in the Middle East's worst-hit country.
"Sadly, we lost 229 of our compatriots to the COVID-19 infection in the past 24 (...)
Iranian police arrested people behind protests that broke out last week in the southwest of the country, state news agency IRNA reported.
"All the perpetrators of an illegal and norm-breaking gathering in Behbahan (city) were identified and (...)
Iran has executed a man convicted of providing information to the United States and Israel about prominent Revolutionary Guard general, Qassem Soleimani, who was later killed by a US drone strike.
A state TV report on Monday said the death sentence (...)
The execution of three persons linked to deadly November protests in Iran sparked by a hike in petrol prices has been halted, one of the accused's lawyers said on Sunday.
"We conveyed a request (for a retrial) to the Supreme Court and they have (...)
