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Within the small community of minority Arabs where he lived in southwest Iran , Hashem Shaabani was known as a teacher, an advocate for civil rights and a poet. But to the Islamic Republic he was seen as a threat. Shaabani, 32, was arrested in February 2011 and accused of...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday Washington was evaluating whether to continue its role in Middle East peace talks, signaling his patience with the Israelis and Palestinians was running out. Speaking during a visit to Morocco after a week of setbacks, Kerry said...

Members of the Islamic Front spoke with two elderly Armenian women at Syria’s border crossing with Turkey in the northern Latakia province town of Kasab, aiming to ease a spate of international concern over the fate of Syria’s minorities in newly contested corner of northern...