Hamas-ruled Gaza has reported 12 Covid-19 cases and has just 96 ventilators for a population of 2-million
People must stay at home from dusk to dawn for 21 days by royal decree
About half those freed are political prisoners, with Iran’s prisons overcrowded and disease-ridden, according to the UN
Left blind, deaf and unable to walk, the father of four has spent the past seven years trying to outrun the conflict
Measures in the eastern oil-producing province of Qatif are not expected to affect Saudi Arabia's oil output
The president made the announcement after the country cancelled upcoming Friday prayers in all provincial capitals this week due to the virus
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researchers see agricultural fields filled with camps for the displaced and levelled villages and towns
Netanyahu and religious and nationalist allies look set to defeat rival Benny Gantz
Showdown comes ahead of meeting between presidents Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin this week
The original deputy health minister admitted he had tested positive a day after he had coughed during a news conference
Medical staff in the Syrian province say there has been a marked rise in miscarriages and premature births in the past two months
Another deadlock looms despite Israel’s longest-serving prime minister facing graft charges
Accord creates a path for the US to gradually withdraw from Afghanistan and potentially end the 18-year conflict
Netanyahu’s announcement would give the go-ahead for 3,500 homes for Israelis to be built on a parcel of barren hills known as E-1
Mubarak, Egypt’s longest-serving ruler in 150 years, was forced from office partly by the Arab Spring
The violence has forced 900,000 Syrians to flee their homes or shelters; more than half of them children
Mecca governor Khaled al-Faisal has ordered the arrest of those behind a music video featuring Asayel Slay
Most surveys consistently show his Likud party slightly trailing former military chief Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White bloc
The Financial Action Task Force has been warning Iran for three years, but the blacklisting will add pressure to the few banks still operating with Iran
The strike took place in rebel-held northern Yemen, in what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
