A US church group of 13 people have been stranded in a quarantined hotel near the occupied Palestinian town of Bethlehem on suspicion of being exposed to the Coronavirus during their trip and are coordinating with American and Palestinian officials in a desperate effort to return home.

The Saudi-led coalition has carried out fresh airstrikes in Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah in violation of the 2018 Stockholm Agreement.

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Richard Bernan lauded Iran’s preventive measures to fight against coronavirus, and called on the regional states to use the country’s experience in its nationwide campaign against the epidemic.

Saudi whistleblower Mujtahid, who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family, revealed that in addition to the Saudi princes, a number of officers have also been arrested.

Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari says the Damascus government and the Syrian nation will not allow Turkey to split and annex any part of the Arab country’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib.

India has been forced to lift a ban on media coverage of a recent wave of sectarian violence against Muslims in the Hindu-majority country.

The years-long occupation of Afghanistan by the United States began based on a lie and the US has been operating in the war-ravaged country “under the law of the jungle,” says a former US marine.

The Israeli military says some 1,262 soldiers are quarantined at home on suspicions of a new coronavirus infection as the flu-like virus is spreading across the globe.