The head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the occupying Israeli regime is feeling an existential threat to its political survival.

Saudi activists have expressed serious concern over the spread of the novel coronavirus in some neighborhoods of the holy city of Mecca, emphasizing that the slums are hotspots for the severe outbreak as they are densely-populated and suffer from unsanitary conditions and weak health infrastructure.

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.

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.