U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks on Iran strategy showed that the United State was after regime change in the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian official told Reuters Monday. "America wants to pressure Iran to surrender and accept their illegal demands ... his remarks showed...

A Turkish court Monday sentenced 104 people to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in 2016, the Hurriyet newspaper said, in one of the heaviest penalties given since the attempt. The court in the Aegean coastal town of Izmir handed 104 of 280 defendants "aggravated...

The husband of an Iranian-British woman detained in Tehran says she now faces a new charge of "spreading propaganda against the regime." A statement Monday from him says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe learned of the new charge at a court hearing Saturday before Judge Abolghassem Salavati of...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas remained in hospital Monday, a spokeswoman said, a day after being admitted with complications following an ear operation. A spokeswoman for the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said the 83-year-old was doing well but...