Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have ordered the closure of schools, colleges and universities after the region reported its first cases of the novel coronavirus infection.

US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over the fast-spreading coronavirus, freeing up additional resources and federal funding of about $50 billion to fight the disease.

A number of interesting developments here in the United States and in China suggest that there is something very strange going on regarding the coronavirus and the US government.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has summoned the US and British ambassadors to Baghdad over a string of airstrikes carried out by the United States against multiple locations of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi.

The Iraqi military and the presidency have condemned new US airstrikes, saying they killed soldiers, police officers and civilians overnight.

US sanctions imposed on Iran are an “act of war” as they hamper Tehran's efforts to counter the new coronavirus pandemic, says an American writer and former university professor.

Between 70 to 150 million people in the United States could eventually be infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a projection shared with Congress, a lawmaker said Thursday.

Secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah strongly criticizes the US’s avoiding transparency concerning the extent of the outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus.

The US military might have triggered the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan – the epicenter of the virus epidemic – Beijing claimed on Thursday, widening the trade-centered war between the two nations to the territory of a biological attack.

Mainstream press and media in the West continue to portray the United States as a supporter of noble objectives such as human rights, freedom and democracy in the Middle East.