A top US general in Iraq has warned over a Pentagon’s secret directive, which called on US military commanders to prepare a campaign against Iraq's pro-government anti-terror Kata'ib Hezbollah group.

Turkey says its first cases of the new coronavirus were detected among those returning from Saudi Arabia, accusing Riyadh of concealing the number of patients among pilgrims.

A video has emerged showing Israeli bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes near the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

The demand for beds and ventilators in US hospital intensive care units will far exceed capacity for COVID-19 patients as early as the second week of April, according to a new analysis from the University of Washington.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to increase its domestic police powers, while also seeking to commit "genocide" against Iranians on behalf of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a political analyst and former US Senate candidate.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the US for taking several Iranian scientists hostage at the time of COVID-19 and refusing to grant them medical leave even during the coronavirus outbreak.

A California teenager who died last week, possibly from coronavirus, was turned away from an urgent care because he lacked health insurance.

Israeli warplanes have conducted several airstrikes against the besieged Gaza Strip, targeting a number of areas in the northern parts of the Palestinian coastal enclave.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a phone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the Damascus Army inches closer to win the war against foreign-backed terrorist groups.

Instead of easing up on Iran amid the coronavirus outbreak, the US has once again gone the opposite way, announcing yet another new round of sanctions against the country.