Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...

Iran executed 853 people in 2003 and 930 last year, the most in a decade, sending a chilling message to dissidents in the country and prompting United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk to urge ...

Syria's interim Defence Ministry has said that its forces are continuing operations against remnants of the ousted Bashar ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had discussed in Ankara on ...

Iran executed 87 prisoners in January, a 17% increase compared to the number of death sentences carried out in the same month last year, a human rights monitor stated on Saturday.

Iran has given temporary reprieve from execution to Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi, but the uncertainty has only increased the agony of her family, rights activists said. Ms Azizi, 40 ...

After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the ...

If the Kurds were supported to form their own agency in the north of Syria and Iraq and the bordering region between the two ...