The new laws, which were passed by the Iranian parliament earlier this month, have introduced severe penalties for women in ...

The new laws, which were passed by the Iranian parliament earlier this month, have introduced severe penalties for women in ...

Women in Iran risk the death penalty or up to 15 years in prison under new morality laws, which will come into effect this ...

In Assad’s abandoned office, his desk and floor were littered with books and papers: a history of the Russian military, a map of northeastern Syria, a biography of himself. Strips of antianxiety pills ...

Anti-women laws and the brutal actions of the Islamic Republic's Morality Police have led Iranian women to take a prominent ...

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad crushed pro-democracy protests, killing more than half ...

Throughout history, women who protested against the state or were seen as trouble makers were dubbed ‘mentally ill’.

Amnesty International on Tuesday criticized Iran's newly implemented mandatory veiling law, claiming that it intensifies the systemic subjugation of women and girls. The law enforces harsh ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel advance ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a ...

President Biden said that the United States would continue to hunt ISIS members, and work to secure chemical weapons in Syria ...

The president-elect claimed Russia is in a "weakened state" due to the Ukraine conflict and urged Putin to negotiate.