An armed drone targeted the home of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday, hours after his supporters deployed in Baghdad in response to an attack that left 17 protesters dead. The developments marked a worrying turn for the anti-government protests rocking Iraq since October, the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozen of Syrian detainees are at risk of summary executions in Sednaya military prison north of the capital, local monitoring group said. The Violations Documentation Center in Syria said the Syrian regime is preparing to hold a series of new field trials against...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Detainees Association of Sednaya Prison has released the testimonies of torture survivors of the notorious detention facility. According to the report, 100% of the detainees had been tortured physically and 97.8% had been tortured psychologically. The...

At least 13 people were killed Wednesday in eastern DR Congo by an armed group blamed for a string of massacres that have sparked deadly protests against the UN's peacekeeping mission, officials said. Thirteen people were "killed at dawn" near the town of Oicha, 30 kilometres (18 miles)...