At only 18, Iman Abbas has overcome suffering that would break many -- the Yazidi was repeatedly sold as a "slave" by jihadists but escaped to become an award-winning advocate for fellow survivors. "Because of what I've been through, I don't consider myself a teenager," the softly-spoken...

Iran on Monday rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing him on espionage charges. Jason Rezaian spent 544 days in an Iranian prison before he was released in January 2016 in exchange for seven Iranians held in the United...

A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has urged the country's judiciary to mete out harsh sentences to what he described as "mercenaries" involved in protests against a fuel price hike last week, the judiciary's Mizan news site reported. "We caught all the mercenaries who openly...

Lebanese security forces briefly arrested five youths, including three minors, for allegedly pulling down a sign for the president's political party, sparking outrage Sunday on social media. Defence lawyers said the five were taken into custody on Saturday evening in the town of Hammana...