The suspects acquitted this week in the mob lynching of a Pakistani university student falsely accused of blasphemy received a hero's welcome following their release from detention.
The Pentagon says U.S. commanders notified Russian counterparts of an air and ground assault on pro-Syrian fighters in response to an attack on U.S. allied militias in eastern Syria.
The reformist fraction in the Iranian Parliament has once again dragged Saeed Toosi, known as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s favorite Quran reciter, into the spotlight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to strengthen coordination between the countries' military and security services in Syria, the Kremlin says.
The United States has started shifting combat and intelligence-gathering air assets to Afghanistan as the battle against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group is winding down in Iraq and Syria, a top commander in Afghanistan says.
U.S.-led coalition air and local ground forces in Syria have killed more than 100 pro-Syrian fighters after an "unprovoked attack" on the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) headquarters, a U.S. official says.
The United States has designated three Pakistani-based militants as "global terrorists," as Washington heaps pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants.
The United States says it is holding Iran responsible for the health of an 81-year-old Iranian-American man who was sent back to prison this week following a short medical leave.
The U.S. Justice Department has announced the indictments of 36 people in a global cyberidentity fraud scheme that it says caused more than $530 million in losses to consumers, businesses, and financial institutions.
Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to stop executing child offenders after three people were put to death in January for crimes they committed as minors.
A Pakistani court has sentenced one person to death and five other people to life imprisonment over the mob lynching of a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy in 2017.
The city council of Washington, D.C., has renamed the street where Russia's embassy is located to honor the memory of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in a move that Moscow has complained about.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said that a plan to add a new cruise missile to the United States' nuclear arsenal aims to provide additional leverage to U.S. negotiators trying to persuade Russia to stop violating a key arms control treaty.
The U.S. State Department's No. 2 official says President Donald Trump’s administration has so far seen no evidence that Pakistan has met its demands for a crackdown on militants operating in the country.
Iran's President Hassan Rohani has again ruled out negotiations on the country's missiles program, saying it did not aim at making weapons of mass destruction.
A British judge has upheld an arrest warrant in the United Kingdom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving his legal position unchanged after more than five years inside Ecuador's embassy in London.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says seven Afghan army officers, including two generals, have been sacked for “professional negligence” during a recent deadly attack on a Kabul military base.
United Nations war crimes experts say they are investigating numerous reports of alleged chemical attacks against civilians in rebel-held towns of Syria.
Iran’s former President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has renewed his criticism of Iran’s powerful judiciary following the arrests of several of his supporters.
Russia and the United States have clashed at the United Nations Security Council over allegations the Syrian government has again used chemical weapons in rebel-held areas of the country.
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