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Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves over a conviction for possessing and ...

Syria's new authorities launched a sweeping security operation Friday after clashes with fighters loyal to former president ...

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The PKK’s unilateral disarmament marks a potential turning point in Kurdish relations with the Turkish state, but challenges ...

Turkey’s Kurdish militants declared an immediate ceasefire in their 40-year war against the Turkish state. The timing was ...

With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning ...

Increasingly desperate to ease Iran’s water crisis, the authorities are now looking to harness the likely toxic waters of the ...

After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French ...

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