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Online footage shows police beating and dragging individuals who were arrested, while eyewitnesses have shared testimony indicating the ill treatment of people in custody, Amnesty says.
Over 600 people have been arrested and troops have been deployed after a third consecutive night of riots in various Tunisian cities.
Israeli warplanes strike the besieged Gaza Strip
There were no reports of any damage from Palestinian rockets, with Israeli army sources indicating they had landed in the Mediterranean sea
Riots break out in Tunisian cities amid economic crisis
Riots erupted in several Tunisian cities on Saturday amid a deteriorating economic situation and public outrage over a video showing a shepherd ...
Iraq urges Facebook, Twitter to reconsider militia accounts ban
In a statement on Friday, Iraq's Media and Communications Commission called on Facebook and Twitter to review a decision to ban accounts linked ...
Scottish court upholds Lockerbie bomber's conviction
The Lockerbie bombing is alleged to be a retaliation for the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by a US Navy missile in July 1988 that killed 290 people.
Scottish judges to rule on posthumous Lockerbie appeal
The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, have battled for years to bring the case and clear his ...
Tunisia's revolutionary demand for economic justice remains unmet
In-depth: The political freedoms of Tunisia's revolution have not brought economic equality, with wealth still concentrated in the hands of a ...
Pompeo to accuse Iran of Al-Qaeda links
Pompeo has fired a long list of warnings to Iran, as he sees out his final days as Secretary of State.
WHO rules out Covid herd immunity this year
Scientists at the World Health Organization warned that mass vaccinations would not bring about herd immunity to the coronavirus this year, even ...
Does Khamenei want to make Iran into North Korea?
Comment: Khamenei's US/UK vaccines ban isn't just the usual anti-western sentiment, it's proof his regime cares little for Iranian lives, and ...
Israel steps up attacks on Iranian targets in Syria
Israel has launched three rounds of strikes in Syria over the past ten days.
Iran ex-president's daughter blames Tehran for Syria atrocities
Faezeh Rafsanjani, the daughter of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, has blamed Iran for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of ...
Victims' governments demand justice on anniversary of plane downing
Canada, Britain, Ukraine and other nations have called on Iran to facilitate a 'transparent' investigation into a Ukrainian passenger jet's ...
US puts top Iraqi official Fayyadh on blacklist
The US Treasury placed sanctions on the leader of Iraq's paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces.
Iran voices 'extreme concern' over US detainee rights
Tehran has mirrored the US in expressing 'extreme concern' over detainee rights.
Iran unveils underground missile base in Gulf
The new base hosts missiles with 'huge destructive power', Revolutionary Guards head Hossein Salami said.
US flies two B-52 bombers to Middle East
Concerned that an attack could occur on the anniversary of Soleimani’s death, the US sends two B-52 bombers to the Arabian peninsula in ...
Iran can't set compensation for downed plane victims: Canada
Canada has said Iran could not make decisions unilaterally about how families should be compensated over the Ukrainian flight shot down by ...
Soleimani video game set for release as Iran mourns
First-person shooter game 'General in the Shadows' is set at the 2014 siege of Amerli in Iraq.
Iran general hints Soleimani could be avenged 'inside America
Authorities in the United States said a threat has been made by unknown perpetrators to avenge the killing of Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani.
Thousands of US forces to leave Iraq 'within days'
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on Wednesday vowed his country will no longer serve as a playground for regional and global disputes, ...
A year after Soleimani's killing, tensions simmer in Iraq
In-depth: Iran has promised to avenge Soleimani's killing, but the proliferation of more independent armed militias in Iraq could be an even ...
Trump told Pentagon to turn Gulf aircraft carrier back
The aircraft carrier was leaving the Middle East when Trump instructed a u-turn.
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