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For the first time, the number of coronavirus cases outside China has outpaced those inside the country, where it originated with most probable transmission happening from wild animal food to humans. The World Health Organization, a...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi  on Friday for talks on the region beset with multiple crises including Afghan uncertainty, Iranian unrest and Kashmir siege, all on borders of Pakistan which...

Saudi Arabia is sending a senior official to Washington on a mission to contain US-Iran crisis, which have escalated precariously following killing of an Iranian general and invasion of the U.S. embassy compound in Iraq. Analysts...

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran soared dramatically after Yemen’s Houthis rebels conducted drone attacks on kingdom’s two major oil processing plants on Saturday. The Houthi group – which has links with Iran – has claimed...

Faced with pressure over compliance of U.S. sanctions against Tehran, India has stopped buying Iranian oil – a move that may have diminishing strategic returns for New Delhi. The United States had given a six-month waiver...

Pakistan rescued 11 Iranians in a fast-paced operation from a sunken boat in the rough seas, plucking out the fishermen with its Navy Sea King helicopters. The Iranian boat sank in the open sea, south west...

A map showing North Africa and the Middle East Credit : Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin Already rattled by a spate of conflicts, the Middle East faces the threat another...

President Donald Trump on Friday said he has authorized targeted military strikes against Bashar al Assad’s regime after it reportedly used chemical weapons against civilians in a suburb of Syrian capital Damascus. Britain and France are...

A child standing in front of his ground-flattened school after a bombardment in Ainjara village in rural Aleppo, Syria. Photo: UNICEF/Khalil Alshawi The United States will maintain a long-term presence in Syria to defeat the ISIS...