Iran rejects 'biased' UN human rights report
Iran on Wednesday rejected as biased and political the latest United Nations report on human rights in the Islamic republic.
In 2015, executions in the...
Evacuation talks under way for besieged Syria town, says Red Cross
Humanitarian groups are negotiating with all sides for the evacuation of 400 people, many starving, from the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, the Red...
HRW: Smuggled Syria photos 'damning evidence' of crimes against humanity
Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centres in Syria present "damning evidence" of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch...
Explosions hit Brussels airport, 21 killed
Explosions tore through the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning killing 21 people and injuring several others, the Belgian news agency Belga said.
The agency...
Lebanese forces used excessive force in blast protests
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces used excessive force, including firing live ammunition, against anti-government protesters after the Beirut port explosion, Human Rights Watch...
Blast kills 13 as Pakistani Taliban avenge executed Islamist
A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack which the Taliban described as revenge for the...
Egypt urges boycott of BBC after report on disappearances
Egypt's state media body is calling on officials and the "elite" to boycott the BBC after it broadcast a report on the repression of...
Syrian government accused of targeting hospitals in battle for Aleppo
Syrian government attacks on hospitals in Aleppo have devastated the frontline city's health care, with roughly 95 percent of doctors having fled, been detained...
Kerry calls for clarity to help end Israeli-Palestinian violence
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday Israeli and Palestinian leaders need to clarify the status of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound to...
Two contractors held in Yemen do not work for United Nations
The United Nations said on Monday that two contractors detained by authorities in Yemen's capital Sanaa were not working for the world body, but...
