DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf, an act widely seen as support for anti-government demonstrators amid weeks of protests over the Islamic Republic's mandatory hijab....

Dozens of residents of the "Euphrates Shield" and "Olive Branch" areas, northeast of Aleppo province, went out on Sunday in demonstrations in several towns and villages, expressing their refusal the control of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" (formerly known as Nusra Front) on several towns in the...

A local relief group documented the toll of violations committed against civilians due to the rebel infighting that took place in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo over the past days. The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that at least 5 civilians were killed and 38...

AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to at least 40 people Saturday, officials said. Desperate relatives had waited all night in the cold outside the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea...