Middle East

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...

Israeli cyber arms firm NSO Group that produced the infamous Pegasus software, which some repressive regimes have used to...

A U.K. court sentenced the ringleader of a criminal network to nine years in prison for smuggling vacuum packed wads of...

Following several months of careful legal negotiation, South Africa formally asked the UAE to extradite brothers Rajesh and...