A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker three days ago, leading the U.S. to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region. Iranian state media quoted its Foreign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Sednaya prison “executioners” forced a 70-year-old old man from the city of Darya, to grab his teeth and throw them in the toilet, and then put them in his mouth again before they beat him. Detainee Imad Abu Ras could not forget this scene along with other methods of...

The story of Saihe Nedim Barudi, a Syrian woman who contracted cancer after spending three months in regime prisons, is still vivid in the memory of her friends. Barudi, 55, died in February, almost five years after she was arrested by regime forces in the west-central Hama province on...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants his administration to "take a look" into whether Google has been working with the Chinese government -- an allegation swiftly denied by the US internet giant. Trump echoed an unsubstantiated remark from tech billionaire Peter Thiel that Google...