Middle East

Middle East 04/29/20, 17:54

Tanker Tracking reported that Iran tripled its oil deliveries to Syria, defying export restrictions imposed by the United States and the European Union. Tanker Tracking satellite-tracked the large tanker that left Iran and docked at the ...

Middle East 04/02/20, 17:40

In the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan, the government recently issued an order banning the word "coronavirus." So far the restriction has been implemented on everything from health pamphlets to the official media, according to ...

Middle East 03/27/20, 18:02

Iran's theocratic regime refuses to release several Christians imprisoned for exercising their right to religious freedom, even though it has released 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Part) Virus outbreak. "We at ...

Middle East 03/26/20, 16:22

The Islamic Republic of Iran is not only facing the difficult scenario caused by the spread of the CCP Virus, which has currently infected 29,406 people, but is also being plagued by weather conditions. In the ...

Middle East 03/20/20, 17:09

On Thursday, March 19, the Iranian Ministry of Health reported that every 10 minutes a person died from the CCP Virus (Chinese Communist Party virus). So far, the number of deaths in the Middle East ...

Middle East 03/10/20, 12:28

At least 27 people in Iran that has been hit hardest in the Middle East by the coronavirus, have died from alcohol poisoning while trying to prevent infection of the coronavirus, Iranian news agencies reported ...

Middle East 03/07/20, 19:59

In view of the imminent advance of the coronavirus outbreak, in the last 24 hours the Iranian Ministry of Health reported an increase in the number of confirmed deaths, which would have risen from 21 ...

Middle East 03/03/20, 11:30

As Iran scrambles to contain the coronavirus, it has added another high official to the death toll. A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from the coronavirus pandemic. Iran confirmed the ...

Middle East 02/29/20, 20:24

A peace agreement was signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban on Saturday, Feb. 29, which would help end 18 years of war in Afghanistan and allow U.S. troops to return home. U.S. special envoy ...

Middle East 02/28/20, 10:19

Several Iranian high-ranking officials from President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet have taken ill with the COVID-19 coronavirus, including Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar. Ebtekar is better known to Americans as "Mother Mary," the ...

Middle East 02/25/20, 12:54

As Iran struggles to contain the novel coronavirus, fears are spreading across the Middle East as millions of pilgrims make the trek each year to visit Shiite holy sites in Iran and Iraq. On Saturday, Feb. ...

Middle East 02/14/20, 16:49

The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the transparency of foreign funding received by Harvard and Yale universities. Officials suspect that these institutions failed to report billions of dollars worth of contributions originating from ...

D.C. 02/14/20, 12:08

Military responses in the Middle East will take longer to authorize after tighter rules were imposed to force the president to seek prior approval from Congress. The Senate passed the new Iran War Powers Resolution that ...

D.C. 02/10/20, 10:38

A controversial Iranian general would still be alive today if a Democrat was in the Oval Office. Three Democratic candidates for president confirmed they would not order a deadly military strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani if ...

Middle East 02/07/20, 11:19

A counterterrorism operation killed one of the founding leaders of terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The White House confirmed a counterterrorism operation led by President Donald Trump successfully eliminated al-Qaeda cofounder Qasim al-Rimi in ...

Middle East 02/02/20, 14:12

U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials confirmed on Thursday, Jan. 30, that Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a known terrorist leader in Phoenix was arrested for the murder of two Iraqi police officers. The Iraqi government requested ...