On Iran, and the Baloch and Kurdish insurgencies.

A Bloomberg Law exclusive investigation has revealed that 41 people across the country have died after police or jails used a full-body restraint called The Wrap to subdue people.

The extraordinary step of stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship used to be reserved for individuals who turned out to be war criminals, genocide perpetrators, threats to national securi...

Shahzia Sikander’s “The Last Post,” a video installation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, mesmerizes as an abstracted examination of colonialism.

They helped overthrow Assad, but potential terrorist ties complicate the community's future in the country.

Turkey has decided to allow parliament's pro-Kurdish party to hold talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on Thursday, setting up the first such visit in nearly a decade.

Human rights activists and war crimes lawyers have long been trying to build cases against President Bashar al Assad’s regime. Hundreds of abandoned prisons, police stations and government sites could...

Human rights activists and war crimes lawyers have long been trying to build cases against President Bashar al Assad’s regime. Hundreds of abandoned prisons, police stations and government sites could...

Some Arab officials urge Assad to leave the country as battle for Homs looms

“There is no advisable immediate danger to the public at this time,” Morris County Sheriff James Gannon said.

With just weeks left in President Joe Biden’s term, we speak with Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O’Brien, who has written to the outgoing president urging him to “change course on c...

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even…

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday.

Thousands of Rohingya insurgents have emerged from refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar, where militant recruitment and violence have surged this year, according to people familiar with the conflict and internal aid agency reports seen by Reuters.

Amnesty International USA criticized the passage of H.R. 9495 in the House of Representatives, which threatens the freedom of speech and work of U.S. civil society organizations that document human ri...

The NYPD will pay the largest ever protester settlement, plaintiffs said, for its attacks on demonstrators during the George Floyd uprising.