Asharq Al Awsat Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) ...

Sackings of mayors and multiple arrests threaten to torpedo a tentative peace deal with the Kurds – and Turkey’s president is doing this on purpose, experts claim.

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

Australian women who lived in the Islamic State terror group's so-called caliphate speak from detention camps in Syria for ...

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes next.

Turkish authorities have detained scores of leftist, pro-Kurdish and LGBTQ journalists and politicians in the latest ...

The suspension of U.S. humanitarian aid—already devastating worldwide—is now raising alarms over security in northeast ...

Turkey’s ruling AKP views the fall of Assad in Syria as an opportunity to project power across the region. But the ...

Turkish police have detained 282 suspects accused of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militant group, ...

Turkey has detained 282 people in a nationwide swoop on those with suspected "terror" ties, the interior minister said ...