Middle East

Being a member of a religious minority and someone who does not support Hezbollah, Firas Hamdan was an unlikely man to take...

The Taliban have forced all female TV presenters in Afghanistan to cover their faces while on air, as part of their radical...

Strapped for funds under the weight of U.S. sanctions, lawmakers in Iran are pondering a new bill which proposed treating...

Following revelations of how criminals, sanctioned Russian oligarchs, and corrupt officials are big property investors in...

In late 2019, a financial crisis led Lebanese banks to block most depositors from withdrawing or transferring U.S. dollars....

Two Lebanese citizens living in Georgia were extradited to the United States last week to face money laundering charges...

The process of organ transplantation, developed over the last century, has been hailed as a modern miracle, but, according...

Russian politicians under Western sanctions, financial criminals, and corrupt European officials all own real estate in the...

Indian tycoon Yogesh Mehta has made a fortune with Petrochem, his Dubai-based petrochemicals distributor. But one aspect of...

A Jordanian businessman related to the royal family was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years of hard labor and fined 191...

Organized criminals in the western Balkans and particularly Albania are increasingly using the United Arab Emirates as a...

A U.K. court convicted a 33-year old barber from northwest London for paying thousands of pounds to lorry drivers to smuggle...