The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, even after they were granted refugee status ...

Takeshi Ebisawa pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, to ...

A Swiss national detained in Iran on espionage charges has killed himself at a prison in rural Semnan province.

President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat ...

Iran is reeling from a cratering economy and stinging military setbacks across its sphere of influence in the Middle East.

Behrouz Esbati said he partially blamed Russia for the fall of Assad's government, in a rare break from Iran's official line ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala had an emotional reunion with her boyfriend and her parents when she arrived in Italy after being released from detention in Iran. She was also welcomed back by Italian ...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala returns home after three-week detention in Iran, marking diplomatic victory for Italy.

The Syrian shrine of Sayedah Zainab drew Iran-backed militiamen from throughout the region. With Assad's fall, they've fled, ...

Cecilia Sala, the Italian journalist and podcaster, has been freed from detention in an Iranian prison, Italy's government ...

New York isn’t just a haven for Christians from around the world; it’s also a sanctuary for their rare and dying dialects.

The Malaysia stock market on Tuesday ended the three-day losing streak in which it had slipped more than 15 points or 0.9 percent.