Germany has banned Iran’s Mahan Air from operating flights in and out of the country, officials said on Monday. Deputy foreign ministry spokesman Christofer Burger told a news conference in Berlin that the decision was taken to protect “foreign policy and security interests” of...

An Israeli force on Monday stormed a section of the Israel-run Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank and attacked Palestinian detainees, according to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-affiliated Palestinian Prisoners Association.  Currently home to an estimated 1,200...

Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Monday warned Israel against closing schools in occupied East Jerusalem run by the UN’s cash-strapped Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA). According to Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, the move would, if carried out, “damage the Palestinian presence...

Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops have been sent to the city of Fortaleza and the rest of Ceara state to reinforce overwhelmed...