Middle East

Opposition-controlled Idlib has limited number of hospital facilities to deal with pandemic

The poisonings come as fake remedies spread across social media in Iran

Talks collapsed between Yemen's warring sides, leading to conflict escalation

Treasury Department officials sanction 20 companies and individuals as part of Iranian 'web' of illicit activity in Iraq, Syria and Yemen

Summit of G-20 leaders follows virtual meeting of G-20 finance ministers on Monday

A handful of Turkish vocational school students are trying to deal with that shortage by making masks and disinfectant materials themselves.

Crises and stories are being missed as aid workers and journalists are isolated at home or unable to travel

The virus has shuttered businesses and forced well over a quarter of the world's population into home isolation

While residents of many other countries are counting on a government bailout, that's not an option in the country teetering on the edge of bankruptcy 

A White House says that the U.S. administration believes Bob Levinson may have passed away in Iran 'some time ago' 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments come as Iran faces crushing U.S. sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude oil and accessing international financial markets

American companies have been blocked from doing business with Iran and Venezuela for almost two years, after the Trump administration unilaterally pulled out of Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers

As journalists, our duty is often to witness the suffering of families torn apart by wars and other disasters.  Now, as millions of people around the world stay home to try to slow the spread of coronavirus, for many of the world’s most vulnerable people, life is getting even harder.  Humanitarian and government workers cannot help if they cannot leave their homes and more often than ever before in modern history, journalists are not on the scene.  VOA’s Heather Murdock reports from Istanbul.

Levinson disappeared on March 9, 2007, when he was scheduled to meet a source on the Iranian island of Kish.

Resignation of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein clears way for opposition to move forward with efforts in parliament to topple Benjamin Netanyahu as PM