Middle East

Ex-Shiite militia member: They brought shovels, and then brought people, and buried them, some still alive, women, children, old men.

Lebanon is in throes of an acute financial crisis, seen as the biggest threat to its stability since the 1975-90 civil war.

Iran, Syria ink agreement on furthering defense cooperation with focus on anti-airstrike capabilities. Iranian general: Move aimed at reinvigorating Damascus and Tehran's determination to confront the pressure from the US.

Kassim Tajideen was arrested in Morocco and extradited to the US in 2017, where he was charged with laundering money for Hezbollah.

Amid growing discontent over the government’s economic policies, a motion to question Rouhani was signed by 120 lawmakers out of 290 and handed to the presiding board of the assembly.

Coronavirus is surging in the country of 100 million, threatening to overwhelm hospitals. As of Monday, the Health Ministry recorded 76,253 infections, including 3,343 deaths – the highest death toll in the Arab world.

According to Saudi news site Al-Arabiyeh, the explosion occurred at a "cutting factory" in south Tehran.

The damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, Iranian official confirms. Defense Minister Benny Gantz: Not every incident that transpires in Iran necessarily has something to do with us.

Iraqi security forces say they also thwarted another attack aiming to hit Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, a training base used by US-led coalition forces.

A fire breaks out at a power station in southwestern Iran, followed by a chlorine gas leak at the Karoon petrochemicals plant near the port of Bandar Imam Khomeini. Head of Iran's civilian defense: We will retaliate against any country that carries out cyberattacks on its nuclear sites.