UN experts called on Iran’s government to immediately repeal a new law that from Friday imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab. “The new hijab law marks an intensification of state control over women’s bodies in Iran and is a further assault on...

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities on Friday morning, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said. “The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is under massive attack,” Galushchenko wrote in a post on Facebook....

The American citizen found near the Syrian capital Damascus is named Travis Timmerman, and is not missing US journalist Austin Tice as initially reported. Speaking to Al Arabiya on Thursday, Timmerman said he had come to Syria on a religious trip seven months ago, adding that he had been...

A war monitor said Tuesday that Israel had “destroyed the most important military sites in Syria” with a flurry of airstrikes since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights...