Mumbai hosts the "Bollywood Oscars" for the first time in India in 20 years this week with the megastars, movers and shakers of a booming Hindi film industry celebrating another bumper year, including in huge markets like China. With nearly 1,800 titles released in 2018, the South Asian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Air Force Intelligence in southern Daraa province was found dead on Monday morning, pro-regime activists said.    Colonel Soleiman Hammoud died of a heart attack in his home, according to the initial reports. Activists doubted the death...

A former chief prosecutor of Tehran jailed over a death in custody has been released from prison after serving two-thirds of his sentence, a state-owned news website reported Sunday. Saeed Mortazavi was sentenced in 2017 to two years imprisonment over the death of Mohsen Ruholamini, who had...

Several Egyptian rights groups urged a U.N. agency to rule out Egypt as the host of its conference on torture because of the country's dismal human rights record. The development came as Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi ratified Wednesday a controversial bill regulating the work of...