Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran, around Africa's southern tip and into the Mediterranean, the Grace 1 oil tanker lost the flag under which it sailed and ceased to be registered to Panama. Iran later claimed it as its own. The ship carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian...

Iran has freed nine of 12 Indian crew from a Panama-flagged tanker seized on July 14, India's Foreign Ministry said Friday. Iran had accused the vessel, the MT Riah, of smuggling contraband fuel when it was detained, amid mounting tensions between the Iranian government and Britain and the...

Maha al-Nasser queues in front of a crowded clinic in Syria's Al-Hol camp, her frail daughter squirmingin her arms under the stifling desert heat. "My daughter has suffered from convulsions and malnutrition," said 30-year-old Nasser, her face covered in a black veil. "When she...

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,...