The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expressed concerns about the Bahraini government continuing to issue death penalty sentences in light of the deteriorating political and human rights situation since February 2011.

The United Nations called for the immediate removal of Saudi Arabia’s blockade on Yemen as talks to end the ongoing war against the impoverished country begin in Sweden.

The United Nations' refugee agency said there were nearly 1,500 civilian casualties in Yemen from August through October, the latest grim tally to emerge from a four-year Saudi-led war on the impoverished Arab country.

Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani said on Friday that terrorists have damaged regional countries, calling for further cooperation between Iran and Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, IRNA reported.

Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreigners in a most unwelcoming place: a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables and crematory of a center for researching contagious animal diseases, media reported.

After a classified CIA briefing on Tue., US Senators voiced confidence that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

By: Manar Waheed, Legislative and Advocacy Counsel, ACLU

Child cruelty and neglect offences in the UK have doubled over the past five years in the UK, new figures show.

Some 132 million people in 42 countries will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2019, with Yemen topping the list of most-desperate nations, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani argued that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a victim of internal conflicts and feuds between the US democrats and was killed only after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman received a green light from President Donald ...