raq Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP. The mass grave was uncovered in Tal al-Sheikhiya, about 300 kilometers south of Baghdad,...

Iran has captured 17 spies allegedly working for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and some have been sentenced to death, Iranian media reported on Monday, amid soaring tensions between Tehran and Washington. The agencies "successfully dismantled a (CIA) spy network," the head of...

(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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Avaaz, global civic movement, launched in support of a Syrian refugee who has been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison and a fine of more than 3 million Euros on charges of "trafficking". The petition by is the U.S.-based activism tribune called on to "Save...