The U.N. rights office said Thursday it has credible reports that Daesh has killed more than 230 civilians trying to flee Iraq’s western Mosul since May 26.
Turkish authorities detained 60 soldiers Wednesday and issued detention orders for another 128 people in operations targeting the network of a Muslim cleric...
The United Arab Emirates tightened the squeeze on fellow Gulf state Qatar on Wednesday, threatening anyone publishing expressions of sympathy towards Doha...
Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 citizens, all Shiites, after a "grossly unfair trial" linked to political protests, Amnesty International and Human Rights...
Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been detained by authorities at an airport in Dammam, rights group Amnesty International said on...
Millions of Cambodians voted in local polls on Sunday, testing the political temperature of a country rife with tension between its strongman premier and an...
Streets in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul were closed Saturday as authorities tried to prevent a repeat of a demonstration that degenerated into...
Tens of thousands of Cambodians jammed into the capital's streets for rival campaign rallies Friday, two days before local polls set to test the mettle of an...
President Donald Trump has condemned the "barbaric" truck-bombing in Kabul in a phone call with his Afghan counterpart, as global outrage swells over the...
Rights group Amnesty International accused France Wednesday of using emergency powers to fight terrorism as a pretext for clamping down on peaceful protests,...
As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1 billion in...
An activist investigating working conditions at a supplier for Ivanka Trump's brand in China has been detained, his NGO said Wednesday, putting another...
Rights group Amnesty International says a new law ratified by Egypt's president that imposes unprecedentedly harsh restrictions on NGOs could be "a death...
Chinese authorities Friday executed the former police chief of the northern region of Inner Mongolia after convicting him of murder, bribery, and possession...
The South Sudanese government on Friday freed a local journalist working for a United Nations radio station who spent two and a half years in jail without...
A portrait-shaped slab of wood is the canvas for a map of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas executed three people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday over the assassination of one of its military leaders allegedly on...
Bahraini police raid on the hometown of a prominent Shiite spiritual leader facing possible deportation has left at least five demonstrators dead and 286...
Turkish police detained two teachers who have been on hunger strike for more than two months protesting against a government crackdown in which they lost...
Friends and family paid their final respects Tuesday to slain journalist Javier Valdez, who apparently paid with his life for his award-winning reporting on...