Marcus Fakana, the British teenager who was sentenced to one year in prison in Dubai after he had consensual sex with a 17-year-old girl, has been released and is back home with his family. Fakana, ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims have gathered in Karbala, Iraq, for Ashoura, a holy day commemorating Imam Hussein’s martyrdom ...

Human Rights Watch is pleased to contribute to the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity regarding the human right to education and the protection against violence ...

Americans still have fresh memories of the death and destruction of the previous US imperial adventure in the region.

The recent missiles screaming across Middle Eastern skies tell a story older than either Israel or America. As Iranian ...

For Iran’s regime, the confrontation exposed its growing vulnerability. For the United States, it marked the end of ambiguity. And for the world, it was the clearest evidence in years that America is ...

In a stinging rebuke of one of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s most politically fraught prosecutions, a state appeals court moved Thursday to dismiss the remaining criminal ...

For a guy who likened the 2003 invasion of Iraq to “throwing a big fat brick into a hornet’s nest,” U.S. President Donald ...

So I wasn’t much surprised on Saturday night. If Iraq could happen in the face of all those warnings, all that protest, then of course Iran could be bombed. Indeed, the bombing felt inevitable.

Herbenick et al. (2022) conducted interviews with 21 young adult males to explore their knowledge, perception, and experiences of sexual choking. They found that the majority of males in the study ...

Iraq removed a trade ban it had imposed on Brazilian chicken meat after a bird flu case on a commercial farm last month, while South Korea eased its restrictions, the Brazilian Agriculture ...