WITH only one dedicated COVID-19 hospital for 15 million people, Somalia is bracing for a catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, doctors warn.
The single hospital equipped for coronavirus patients, located in the capital city of Mogadishu, has only 20 (...)
AS many churches around the world face dire financial straits and struggle to survive due to the coronavirus pandemic, one church is rising from the ashes in the most unlikely of places: former Daesh (so-called IS) territory.
Daesh, which ruled the (...)
DUBAI -- Leaving your house without a face mask could send you to prison for three years in Qatar, where the government has threatened violators with jail time and a fine of up to $55,000.
Many governments around the world have mandated the wearing (...)
DUBAI — Iran has sentenced a young Christian woman to 10 lashes and three months in prison for allegedly demonstrating against the military's downing of a Ukrainian airplane in January.
Mary Mohammadi, 21, was arrested in Tehran on Jan. 12 and (...)
DUBAI -- Iran should not yet reopen mosques at this critical time in its coronavirus epidemic, said Iranian physician Dr. Kamiar Alaei, following the reopening of some mosques in the country.
The Iranian government closed mosques in mid-March, but (...)
The origin of the novel coronavirus outbreak remains a mystery, with experts disagreeing on whether the virus came from either a laboratory or a wet market in the city of Wuhan, China.
While the scientific community has concluded the virus is (...)
DUBAI -- The US supports Israel's "efforts to secure its self-defense," American official James Jeffrey said, following reports of Israeli raids on Iranian targets in Syria.
"Israel is facing an existential threat from Iran...the Iranians are in (...)
DUBAI — At least seven Christians have been freed from prison in Iran, according to nonprofit Christian watchdog Article 18 as the government released tens of thousands of prisoners in response to the coronavirus epidemic.
Some Christian prisoners (...)
DUBAI ‐‐ Kuwait's government said on Monday it will not hesitate to take more drastic measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and that a countrywide curfew is on the table if the public fails to abide by the Ministry of Health's (...)
OVER 200 Bahraini citizens tested positive for coronavirus till Saturday after being evacuated from Iran, just one example of how many infections in the Middle East are the result of religious pilgrimage to the republic.
Most of Saudi Arabia's (...)
DUBAI — Coronavirus, which has far infected over 90,000 people worldwide and killed more than 3,000, will likely be declared a pandemic soon by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood, professor of epidemiology at Yale (...)
ISRAEL's security will be put at risk if it annexes settlements in Palestinian territory as foreseen under US President Donald Trump's peace plan, Israeli and Palestinian experts say.
The Middle East peace proposal, which was presented by Trump and (...)