TEHRAN: A woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, three months without parole, the judiciary said Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not...

A car bomb attack killed 11 people and injured more than 10 others in Jarablus, a border zone that Turkish forces and Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) took from Daesh in 2016. The suspected PKK-affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists detonated a car bomb near a police...

DUBAI: Air strikes killed a woman and a young girl in northern Yemen on Wednesday in a series of attacks by an Arab coalition fighting the country's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, residents told Reuters. The Arab-led alliance, which has intervened in Yemen's war since 2015 to try to...

ISTANBUL (AFP)- Criticism mounted in Turkey Wednesday over a decision by Saudi-owned broadcaster MBC to stop airing Turkish soap operas, stoking tensions between Ankara and Riyadh. Viewers in the Arab world have in recent years become voracious consumers of Turkish soaps ranging from...