From a former president disobeying the supreme leader to open discussion of a 1980s mass execution, Iran's presidential election is pushing the boundaries of what can be discussed in public and done online, a small but noticeable shift in the country's clerically overseen polls. The push...

 An Afghan official says a bomb planted on a car killed a tribal leader and another civilian in the southern Kandahar province. Zia Durani, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said Wednesday that the attack took place the night before in the Spin Boldak district near the border...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mahmoud Afara, an activist focused on refugee affairs, reported to Zaman al-Wasl news from one of the Syrians stranded at the Algerian-Moroccan border that the refugees “are not migrants, but have families in Morocco and their destination was Morocco, not Europe.” ...

( The Guardian )- Aine Lesley Davis, one of the British jihadis who brutalised and beheaded western hostages in Syria, has been convicted in Turkey on terrorism charges and jailed for seven and a half years. Davis, 35, is suspected by western intelligences services of being a member of the...