Middle East

An Israeli court sentenced on Wednesday the country’s former deputy minister and senior member of a major right-wing party...

Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch journalist famous for his independent crime investigations, died in a hospital on Thursday, just...

U.S. federal prosecutors charged an Iranian intelligence official and three members of his network for a plot to kidnap a...

Lebanese police used on Wednesday tear gas and batons against protesters, mainly relatives of the victims of last year’s...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday announced 17 new additions to its “Press Freedom Predators” series — a gallery...

Once the most pirate-infested region on the planet, the waters off the coast of Somalia are now home to a different maritime...

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world has made people poorer and more vulnerable to human trafficking, according to the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a new gold rush in Central Africa, with organized groups cashing in on the surge in the...

French and Israeli police have dismantled a criminal network that is believed to have swindled France out of 12 million euro...

Fearing conscription by the Assad regime? Want to start a new life in Europe? Surf online a bit, and you’ll find that a...

The semi-independent government of the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq has since March 2020 been harshly cracking down...