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The war-torn country controls the biggest oil reserves in Africa and typically pumps 1.2 billion barrels a day. But its regular oil production ground to a halt in January when tribes loyal to eastern-based forces seized large export terminals and

The strikes were “defensive, proportional and in direct response to the threat posed by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups,” Pentagon officials said on Thursday. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)

Pacific islands are imposing strictest lock-down measures to combat the coronavirus, denying access to supply vessels and prohibiting human-to-human contact during aircraft refueling, amid fears their small healthcare systems could be over-run.

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, American officials said, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad. Officials said

“Hundreds of hungry monkeys were seen fighting over a single banana in Thailand after coronavirus caused a huge drop in the numbers of tourists who feed them.” DailyMail

As a result of mass deaths from COVID-19, Iran has dug mass graves to bury its citizens — so large they’re visible from space. WAPO

Iran asked the International Monetary Fund for a $5 billion loan to fight the coronavirus, the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that it has sought such assistance, in a staggering admission of how fragile its economy has become

The U.S. said an Iran-backed group was behind a rocket attack that killed two American troops and a British soldier in Iraq, and Pentagon officials said they were studying all possible military responses with the president.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the formation of an emergency government with his chief rival to confront a growing crisis over the coronavirus.

Who will win the battle for the Iron Throne? Millions will be perched on the edge of their own seats to find out as “Game of Thrones,” set in a turbulent medieval fantasy world of dragons and sword fights, reveals