Middle East

Israel last week acknowledged attacking Iran-linked targets in Syria along the Golan Heights after spotting a squad planting roadside bombs near one of its positions

Armenia agreed to hand over three districts around Karabakh – Aghdam, Kalbajar and Lachin – as part of the deal that stopped an Azerbaijani offensive

Prime Minister Khan recently admitted his government is under diplomatic pressure to establish relations with Israel

Starvation is an "agonizing and humiliating death," says official

Sudan is the third Arab government looking to improve relations with Israel with Washington's support

Italian prosecutors investigating 2016 death of Giulio Regeni are reportedly set to request authorization for a trial-in-absentia of several Egyptian security officials

In VOA Persian interview, US-based daughter of dissident Jamshid Sharmahd said an Iranian lawyer hired by her family in October has been barred by Iran from meeting her father

Pam Am Flight 103 was blown up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 en route from London to New York, an attack that killed 270 people

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Ghosn's detention in Japan in late 2018 and early 2019 was 'arbitrary' and called on Japan's government to 'take necessary steps to remedy situation'   

Saudi officials deny the reports; Netanyahu himself refuses to comment

Mekdad, 66, had been deputy foreign minister since 2006

Turkey's drilling activities in a disputed part of the eastern Mediterranean have raised tensions with the EU as Turkey locked in a dispute with and Greece and Cyprus over the extent of their continental shelves and hydrocarbon resources

World leaders pledged to ‘spare no effort’ to ensure broad access to vaccine  

Nasibeh Shemsai left the Islamic Republic for Turkey and was arrested trying to flee into Spain illegally

Top diplomat says US will help negotiators ‘where we can’ to reach peace deal in Afghanistan