The 13th presidential election held in Iran on June 18 witnessed a lowest ever voter turnout in the electoral history of country. Further while 48.8% voters turned at polling booths, nearly four million of them cast blank votes. Besides low turnout, election of Ebrahim Raeisi, the...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented at least 972 cases of arbitrary arrests in the first half of 2021, including 45 children and 42 women.   The 24-page report explains that most of the arrests in Syria are carried out without any judicial warrant while the...

Children in Lebanon are particularly vulnerable as the country experiences one of the world’s worst economic crises in over 150 years, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).  Lebanon's currency has lost over 90 percent of its value since October 2019, leaving...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, two U.S. officials said Friday. The airfield was handed over to the...