Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has reportedly agreed to an offer by the United Nations to implement a major prisoner swap with Saudi-sponsored Yemeni militiamen loyal to the country’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has warned against the dire consequences of keeping Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and detention facilities, slamming the Tel Aviv regime’s utter disregard for local and international calls to release them to protect their lives amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

At a Tehran mosque converted into factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against the coronavirus.

Data from US states shows that the coronavirus is wreaking havoc in African American neighborhoods, highlighting disparities in health and inequalities in access to medical care.

The chair of the New York City Council’s health committee said on Monday that officials are considering temporarily burying people who die from the coronavirus in local parks.

A huge percentage of Americans are unable to afford health care and have not been tested for the rapidly-spreading coronavirus pandemic, underscoring that the US health care system is an “international joke,” an American scholar says.

The coronavirus pandemic is generating fear, the world over, with the numbers of confirmed cases growing exponentially.

Twenty international rights groups, including the Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch, have called on the Bahraini regime to release opposition leaders, political activists and journalists amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, has categorically dismissed a claim that the Yemeni army and its allied fighters from the Popular Committees targeted the female section of a prison in Yemen's southwestern province of Ta'izz.

The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission says nearly 200 Palestinian children are kept behind bars in Israeli prisons in inhumane conditions, undergoing "very rough interrogation process and torture."

At least three Indian troops and nine pro-independence fighters have been killed in two separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Israeli forces have one again detained the Palestinian governor of occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, marking the seventh time Adnan Ghaith has been arrested in less than 18 months.

As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.

The so-called US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has reportedly airdropped military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, as Washington and some of its regional allies vie to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.

Just three weeks ago, Miguel Rodriguez was enjoying a pleasant life, working as a waiter in a Maryland restaurant in a job he held for 20 years.

Afghan Special Forces have arrested the leader of the Daesh terrorist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan.

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by their Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, have blasted the US forces based in their country as "occupiers", pledging to bring the occupation of the Arab country to an end.

Thousands of people across Iraq have begun a full-fledged campaign to support those in need in the Arab country following a call by the country’s most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to help the people, irrespective of their race or religion, amid the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia's King Salman to order the immediate release of a high-ranking official of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas and his son, citing his poor health condition amid the spread of the highly contagious new coronavirus.

The besieged Gaza Strip might be hit by a “real catastrophe” if the number of people infected by COVID-19 rises, a rights group warns, as the new pandemic rages across the world.