In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France, accompanied by his family and benefitting from refugee status as well as security in his country of exile. But just over a year later, on December 12, 2020, Zam was hanged in Iran, an...

The Islamic State terror group was largely crushed by coordinated international effort in 2019, but its networks appear to still have access to an estimated $100 million in cash reserves stashed across the Middle East, the US Treasury Department said. IS’ monetary reserves are at a...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday announced the coronavirus vaccination program in the West Bank is set to begin in mid-February. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting in Ramallah, Shtayyeh said the Palestinian Authority (PA) was expecting a first shipment of 50,000 vaccines...

Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides kicked off a five-day meeting on Monday to choose an interim prime minister and a three-person presidency council in a bid to reunite the troubled oil-rich country before an election in December. The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, including...