Iranian authorities have arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state TV reported ...

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Early one evening in late January, 12 masked men stormed the Damascus home of Um Hassan's family, pointed AK-47 assault ...

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...