Iran's judiciary chief criticized moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Monday over his promises to release jailed opposition leaders -- a sign of the obstacles facing the newly re-elected leader's reform efforts. During his election campaign, "a candidate said during a gathering of his...

Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by ISIS are struggling to get food, water and medicine, the United Nations said, days into a new push by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops to take the northern city. Up to 200,000 people still live behind ISIS lines in Mosul's Old City...

 (Zaman A Wasl)-  Three Hezbollah officials were killed on Sunday in a car accident in Lebanon on the Bint Jbail-Tayriyeh subhway amid claims of assassination act, Lebanese news feed said Janoubia news site, a critical media outlet to Hezbollah, assured that the deaths...

The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces over Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words that would be regretted later. Judge Mahmud Habash said he based his ruling on "the experience of previous years" when he found that the...