New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded with the US government for more help in expectation of a surge in COVID-19 cases next week, as new statistics emerged confirming that hundreds of thousands of people across the country have lost their jobs.

Israel and Saudi Arabia have launched crackdown on certain population centers as cases of COVID-19 infections surge there.

Iraq’s anti-terror resistance groups have reiterated their readiness to counter any possible attack by US occupation forces, saying that they are also on high alert for any false-flag US operation aimed at creating further unrest in the Arab country.

Head of Documentation Committee for Confronting Coronavirus Mohammad Asayee informed of screening thousands of foreign nationals living in Iran.

Poorer Americans are more likely to have lost their job or be forced to work as usual amid the coronavirus epidemic, but people in the upper classes can work remotely while stressing out about the crisis, according to an Axios/Ipsos poll.

Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance group, which is part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), has warned US President Donald Trump about taking any hostile measures against the Iraqi nation and resistance groups.

The coronavirus pandemic will plunge 8.3 million people in the Arab region into poverty, the United Nation's Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced on Wednesday.

Lebanon has lodged a complaint to the United Nation against the Tel Aviv regime for violating the country's airspace after Israeli military aircraft carried out airstrikes on multiple targets in Syria’s central province of Homs.