Iran arrests YouTube singer for streaming concert without hijab - Parastoo Ahmadi expected to face charges after ‘imaginary ...

India raised and then lowered import tariffs on apples from the US, exposing local apple growers to policy instability. Their ...

On June 25, 2024, India entered the fiftieth year of the imposition of the National Emergency, a period from 1975 to 1977 during which civil liberties were suspended, press freedom restricted, ...

Sam Heller is an Analyst and a Fellow with Century International, the Century Foundation’s center for international research ...

She was arrested amid the passage of a new, stricter hijab law, which Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized this ...

The Iranian regime released a young female singer who was arrested for a risque performance without the mandatory hijab.

A court in Iran has sentenced Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh to 10 years on prison after finding him guilty of collaborating with a hostile government.

Several recent cases confirm continuation of Iran’s longstanding policy of denying political prisoners medical care as a tool ...

Singer Parastoo Ahmadi held an audienceless performance in one of Iran's traditional venues and posted it to YouTube.

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been dealt a severe blow with the destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah, but ...