Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group says, in what it calls an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment. “It is unprecedented in the ...

The government can’t be trusted to investigate itself, but neither can institutions that are biased against it. History will ...

A former Assad brigadier-general for the elite Quwwat al-Nimr unit, Suheil al-Hassan, is among those allegedly implicated in ...

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is seen as a bid to expand military reach and open a new front against Iran in the Horn of ...