A lawyer who ran a local news Facebook page in one of Mexico's most violent states was found killed Friday, prosecutors ...

The report points out Iran’s escalating reliance on technology to monitor and punish women defying the mandatory dress code ...

The U.S.-sanctioned cargo vessel is on its way to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and is expected to arrive later this month ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country’s mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for ...

A U.N. fact-finding mission into Iran's treatment of women reported that the Islamic republic was resorting to extreme ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

China has called for “illegal” sanctions against Iran to be lifted after it hosted diplomats from Tehran and Moscow for talks ...

China hosted Russian and Iranian diplomats on Friday for talks Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program.

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

In a rare escalation, a group of armed men with nationalistic aspirations clashed with regime security forces in the ...

Westminster Bridge and a nearby street were closed for much of Saturday and several emergency services vehicles were at the ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran is taking steps to accelerate its near weapons-grade uranium in a broader effort to expand its capability for nuclear warfare, according to ...