Middle East

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Tehran to end its crackdown on journalists and release all arrested...

A major cross-border investigation coordinated by Interpol has resulted in the arrests of 1,333 suspects and seizure of...

Money laundering for organized criminal activity rose in Israel 12.2% over the course of 2021 compared to 2020, according to...

Between 2016 and 2021, the number of people exposed to forced labor increased by nearly three million in part due to...

Montenegrin authorities seized in the Port of Bar more than 5,000 packages of illegal tobacco products bound for Serbia and...

A judge in Liechtenstein is investigating money transfers between companies owned by Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad...

Moscow continued this week to silence media and journalists known for their critical or investigative coverage of political...

Authorities in Saudi Arabia said they seized 46 million amphetamine pills hidden in a flour shipment in what is believed to...

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a shipping vessel carrying US$20 million worth of narcotics in the Gulf of Oman, the U.S....

Israel's defense ministries levied sanctions Wednesday against 20 individuals and companies who have facilitated Hamas’...

Last year, OCCRP reported that the former Afghan president’s brother held a secret stake in a subsidiary of a U.S.-based...

Just as a leech draws blood from its host, senior executives at Iran’s largest steel company sucked the country’s mining...