Authorities in Egypt detain and forcibly disappear children as young as 12 years old, some being “waterboarded and electrocuted” while in detention, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Monday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hosted a funeral attracting thousands for Hossein Assadollahi, a senior terrorist leader and veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, on Monday.
Proving that nothing is so awful that the Islamic State cannot make it even worse, ISIS on Sunday published an article in one of its newsletters asking Allah to “increase the torment” of infidels from the coronavirus while sparing faithful Muslims.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, will stage a “biological defense exercise” on Wednesday against the Chinese coronavirus, Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
Two senior Egyptian military officials have died from the Chinese coronavirus, according to official government statements released Sunday and Monday.
In the final analysis, mortality rates for coronavirus originally cited by President Donald Trump are going to be proven more accurate than the higher numbers claimed by the World Health Organization, according to an Israeli expert in epidemic modeling.
Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, who served as Iran’s health minister until resigning in protest in January 2019, said on social media Sunday that he had information on the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in Iran as early as December 2019 and privately warned the Islamic regime of a potential epidemic.
The Syrian regime on Sunday confirmed its first officially-recognized case of coronavirus infection. According to Health Minister Nizar Yazigi, the patient is “a person coming from abroad.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s first coronovirus fatality, 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even, was buried Sunday in Jerusalem with 20 mourners at his funeral.
Police in Greece arrested members of a Turkish terrorist organisation after a tunnel containing a cache of military-grade weapons was discovered under Athens.
The U.S. offer to help Iran fight the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is strange, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus was made by America.
Israeli’s defense minister Naftali Bennet posted a video to social media on Friday suggesting that the country’s long-term strategy should involved most of the population becoming infected with, and immune to, coronavirus while isolating the elderly.
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Iranian Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur wrote on social media Thursday that Iran is documenting a new death at the hands of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic every ten minutes.
U.S. Navy veteran Michael White, imprisoned by the Iranian regime for over a year, was granted humanitarian parole on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Iran, scene of the world’s worst fastest and deadliest outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, followed the Chinese Communist Party’s lead and attempted to flip the political script on Thursday by claiming its response to the outbreak has been exemplary, the United States is the clearly incompetent party, and Tehran is magnanimously willing to help America get the virus under control.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Israel’s leading drug producer, announced Thursday that it is donating six million doses of its malaria tablet to the United States as testimonies continue to roll in claiming that it could potentially treat people with the Chinese coronavirus.
TEL AVIV – In an unlikely show of camaraderie, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and main rival Blue and White head Benny Gantz shared an affectionate moment on social media over a coronavirus post, prompting reluctant umpire President Reuven Rivlin to urge the two party heads to continue the solidarity offline as well.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Israel’s Arab sector of not adhering to the health ministry’s guidelines for combating COVID-19, including a major lack of social distancing in Arab population centers, and urged health professionals in those communities to
TEL AVIV – Israel will instate “drive-thru” COVID-19 testing stations on Wednesday that will allow 6,000 Israelis to be tested daily, the country’s emergency service Magen David Adom said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel on Tuesday announced sweeping new restrictions amounting to a near shutdown of the country, telling citizens to avoid going outside unless “absolutely necessary” in a bid to combat the novel coronavirus.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening announced new coronavirus restrictions, particularly in the workplace, but said that Israel would not adopt a full lockdown for now.
A Turkish court on Saturday sentenced three human traffickers to 125 years in prison each for their roles in the death of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian migrant child who drowned in September 2015.
Radical Shiite clerics in Iran have escalated their pressure on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to keep the nation’s largest holy shrines open – where kissing and touching the shrines is common – putting the Islamic regime in a precarious situation after one of its most prominent doctors warned on Tuesday that millions could die of Chinese coronavirus infection.
Iranian state media issued a dire warning to its citizens on Tuesday about the severity of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak, suggesting “millions” could die across the country if people keep ignoring medical advice.
Iran announced on Tuesday that it had temporarily freed roughly 85,000 prisoners in an attempt to control the nation’s novel coronavirus outbreak.
Actress and left-wing activist Rosanna Arquette has pushed a conspiracy theory about the coronavirus, alleging that Israel has been working on a vaccine for a year in partnership with a company that has ties to Jared Kushner’s family.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Committee, asserted on Monday that the Chinese coronavirus “is created by the U.S.”
Iran’s government has been criticized (and occasionally protested) for diverting funds away from domestic priorities to pay for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization with lavishly-financed terrorist proxy forces across the Middle East.
Dr. Rick Brennan, Director of Emergency Operations for the World Health Organization’s Emergencies Program, said on Monday that the number of coronavirus deaths in Iran could be up to five times higher than the official numbers released by the Iranian health ministry.
Saudi Arabia reportedly charged hundreds of government officials, including military and security personnel, with crimes involving bribery and exploiting public office, the nation’s anti-corruption agency said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli gave back a 2,000-year-old catapult bolt to the Israel Antiquities Authority some 15 years after he took off with it while visiting the archaeological site of the Jerusalem Walls National Park in the City of David, saying he wanted to clear his conscience before the end of the world.
TEL AVIV – A dramatic video making the rounds on social media shows a man being arrested by police in full protective gear in Tel Aviv for apparently violating his home quarantine.
TEL AVIV – An Arab-Israeli woman posing as a humanitarian worker was arrested for siphoning off aid money to the Hamas terror group, the Shin Bet security agency said Sunday.
Devout Muslim Shiite followers in Iran fought their way into two major shrines closed over coronavirus fears, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as they demanded the right to continue worshipping practices that include kissing, touching and in some cases licking sacred public objects.
Iranian state media on Sunday denounced as “fake news” a viral video depicting enormous mass graves dug for coronavirus victims near the Shiite holy city of Qom, epicenter of Iran’s deadly outbreak.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani insisted on Sunday that “there is no such thing as quarantine” in the country to prevent the spread of Chinese coronavirus, later urging Iranians to stay in their homes.
Patrick DeHaan, an analyst with GasBuddy, told Breitbart News the falling gas prices are the result of the coronavirus and a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The Islamic State has issued travel advice to supporters, telling would-be killers to avoid Europe during the coronavirus outbreak.
BEIRUT — Lebanon went into lockdown and Iraqis prepared for a curfew Monday as part of regional efforts to contain the new coronavirus even as businesses remained open in Iran, which is battling the worst outbreak in the Middle East and where another senior official has died from the virus.
