Thirty nine ISIS militants were killed in landing operations carried out by Counter Terrorism Service in Saladin Governorate, northern Iraq.

Iraq shut schools and universities yesterday and told citizens to avoid mass gatherings, as it rushed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from its neighbour Iran, hit by what appeared to be the worst outbreak outside of China.

Regime air strikes and artillery fire in northwestern Syria, including on schools in the city of Idlib, killed 19 civilians yesterday, a war monitor said.

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, died Tuesday at age 91.

Regime air strikes and artillery fire in northwestern Syria, including on schools in the city of Idlib, killed 19 civilians on Tuesday, a war monitor said.

The new coronavirus hit four more Middle Eastern states yesterday, with Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman reporting new cases. Oman also halted flights to and from Iran — which is battling the deadliest outbreak outside China – with immediate effect.

Five civilians were killed in Russian air strikes backing Syrian regime forces as they chipped away at the country’s last major rebel bastion in fighting that cost dozens of lives yesterday, a war monitor said.

Kuwait and Bahrain confirmed on Monday their first novel coronavirus cases, the countries' health ministries announced, adding all had come from Iran.

Israeli forces yesterday shot dead a Palestinian fighter suspected of placing a bomb near the Gaza border, before extracting his body with a bulldozer, the army said.

Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said said Sunday the government would work to reduce public debt and restructure public institutions and companies to bolster the economy.

Kuwait Ports Authority announced Sunday suspending ships coming from Iran in Shuaiba, Doha and Shuwaikh ports, due to the spread of Coronavirus there.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Sunday seven people including three children were killed in eastern Turkey after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit neighbouring Iran ...