Sick people across the United States say they are being denied the coronavirus test, as American states scramble to slow the spread of COVID-19 and stop hospitals from being overwhelmed with a surge in critically ill patients.

Israel’s airstrikes in Syria only add to the tensions and destabilize the situation in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

The United States has carried out a string of airstrikes against multiple locations of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, only a day after more than a dozen of the Iraqi fighters were killed by airstrikes targeting an area in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour.

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement of Hamas has lambasted the US State Department’s annual human rights report for referring to Palestinians living in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds as “Arab” and “non-Israeli residents,” describing the labeling as yet “another crime committed by the US against Palestinian people.”

Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah, which is part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), has strongly denounced the illegal US military presence on Iraqi soil, stressing that humiliating the Iraqi nation will not go unpunished.

US President Donald Trump's approval rating has slipped over the last month, a new Hill/HarrisX poll found.

A senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hailed “constant coordination” between Damascus and its allies in the fight against terrorism, saying the Arab nation will stand by the resistance front to help drive the US out of not only Syria but the entire Middle East region.

Oil giant Aramco came under fire after photos showing a migrant worker wearing a surgical mask and a hand-sanitizer dispenser went viral, as several social media users blasted the act as “racist” and "slavery".

A resolute Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he would stay in the US Democratic presidential race despite a series of big losses to front-runner Joe Biden, promising to keep up the public pressure for his sweeping economic and social justice proposals.

Calls for Julian Assange's "torture" and "medical neglect" to be brought to an end are now supported by 186 physicians from around the world, as of March 11, 2020.