Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

The province imported about 1.74 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil from Iran, Russia and Venezuela last year, accounting ...

Asif Merchant, 46, has been holed up in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park ever since ...

Shandong Port Group has banned U.S.-sanctioned tankers from calling into its ports in the eastern Chinese province, home to ...

Most executions were for drug-related offences, but political dissidents and people connected with mass protests in 2022 were ...

Meanwhile, a political prisoner is sentenced to death again, a video of a novelist’s grave desecration sparks outrage against ...

Amid Iranian defeats across the Middle East, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are increasingly turning to China for missile ...

China's key oil ports are banning sanctioned tankers, potentially curbing Iranian oil imports and raising costs for ...

The boss of one of the world’s largest tanker companies said recent moves to tighten sanctions on Iranian and Russian oil ...

The withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort in which Tehran used Syria as a hub in its regional strategy to spread influence and wage proxy war against the U.S. and Israel.

Oil prices eased on Tuesday, extending losses into a second consecutive session after last week's rally, although concerns ...

More than 900 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United ...