Middle East

Three Syrian cargo vessels have been accused of trafficking in grain stolen from Russian-occupied Ukraine. Newly uncovered...

Leaked data shows Ling Seng Hok bought two luxury properties in Dubai. A couple years later, he was arrested in the U.K. for...

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury...

The interception of a humanitarian flotilla has unleashed global protests, from Brussels to Bogotá, highlighting growing...

France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud. NGOs say...

The arrest in Bulgaria of Igor Grechushkin — whose ship carried chemicals to Lebanon that exploded in 2020 — is viewed as a...

A draft law under consideration since 2023, meant to update Lebanon’s outdated Publications Law, could instead upend free...

Igor Grechushkin, who leased the ship that carried chemicals to Lebanon which then exploded, was arrested in Bulgaria after...

Human Rights Watch warns that Yemen’s warring parties are detaining, torturing and assassinating journalists, seizing media...

A veteran journalist thought she survived the siege of Sarajevo unscathed — but in recent weeks, horrific stories emerging...

Amnesty International urges accountability after Druze civilians were executed “in cold blood” in Suwayda, accusing Syrian...

OCCRP contributor Mohamed Abu Shahma reports between funerals, while dodging bullets and bombs, searching for food, and...