Iran

The first of five tankers loaded with gasoline sent from Iran has reached Venezuelan waters

Five Iranian tankers likely carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasoline and similar products are now sailing to Venezuela. It’s part of a wider deal between the two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

The FBI won’t give up on “finding out what happened” to former agent Robert Levinson, who the U.S. government believes died in the custody of the Iranians.

Iran says a military training accident has killed 19 of its sailors and wounded 15 others in waters near the strategic Strait of Hormuz

The Senate has failed to override a presidential veto of a bipartisan resolution declaring that President Donald Trump must get backing from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran

President Donald Trump has vetoed a congressional resolution that said he must get an OK from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran

Tensions are escalating between Washington and Tehran over an Iranian space launch and a tweeted threat by President Donald Trump

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has launched its first satellite into space

Iran’s president has lashed out at criticism of authorities’ lagging response to the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.

A Navy veteran released from an Iranian prison last week on a medical furlough is sick with symptoms of the coronavirus and is requesting a humanitarian evacuation to the U.S. for medical treatment.

A federal judge has held Iran responsible for the kidnapping of former FBI agent Robert Levinson,

The new coronavirus has arrived in the Gaza Strip and Syria, raising fears that the pandemic may now prey on some of the most vulnerable populations in the world

Two Americans imprisoned in the Middle East have been released

Defying a veto threat, Congress has approved a bipartisan measure to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to launch military operations against Iran.

The World Health Organization is urging governments to pull out all the stops against the new coronavirus

Italy has closed schools and universities and barred fans from all sporting events for the next few weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak

The coronavirus outbreak began to look more like a worldwide economic crisis Friday as anxiety about the infection emptied shops and amusement parks, canceled events, cut trade and travel and dragged already slumping financial markets even lower.

Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites, South Korea toughened penalties for those breaking quarantines and airports across Latin America looked for signs of sick passengers as a new virus troubled places around the globe. With the number of sick and dead rising, the crisis gave way to political and diplomatic rows, concern that bordered on panic in...

Iranian officials say the head of a government task force on the coronavirus has tested positive for the illness himself as new cases from the country rapidly emerge across the Middle East

An Iranian lawmaker from the city of Qom says a staggering 50 people have died there from the new coronavirus this month, even as the Health Ministry insisted only 12 deaths have been recorded to date.