Iran expected to be among hardest hit this year. IMF expects 6% retraction in Iran's economic growth in 2019 – and that does not factor in recent announcement by U.S. that waivers on Iranian oil exports to expire next week, further deepening Iran's economic recession.
As Russia, Turkey, and Iran hold new talks to restore peace, Syrian Ambassador to the U.N. Bashar Jaafari also blasts Western nations who refuse to repatriate ISIS members, saying that they are "making Syria a victim twice."
Supreme Spiritual Council of Iraq's Yazidi community says media "distorted" earlier statement regarding the status of Yazidi women abducted into sexual slavery by Islamic State.
Asylum seekers Maha and Wafa al-Subaie tell Apple and Google that Absher app allows men to update or withdraw permission for female relatives to travel abroad, trapping women in abusive relationships.
U.S. President Donald Trump's aim "is to bring us to our knees to talk" – but national security adviser John Bolton and key U.S. allies in the Mideast want "regime change at the very least" and the "disintegration of Iran," says Iran's FM Mohammad Zarif.
Wives, widows, and children of ISIS fighters have been disowned by relatives and abandoned by the state, with children born in ISIS-run hospitals even being denied registration as citizens as a way of punishing them for their fathers' transgressions.
17 killed when blast causes several buildings in rebel-held town Jisr al-Shughour to collapse; bomb in Damascus kills one person and wounds five more, state-run media reports.
Head of Egypt's National Election Authority announces that over 88% of voters approved amendments to constitution and reports voter of 44.33%.
Saudi dissident Ali Al-Ahmed says Tuesday's mass execution of Shiites was the largest in the kingdom's history. Meanwhile, Amnesty International says 11 of the men executed were convicted of spying for Iran after "sham" trials.
A lack of qualified staff and funding prevented Hamas from operating the center after the building was complete. Eventually, the Qatar Fund for Development assumed the operational expenses and trained 150 medical staff locally and abroad to run the hospital.
