Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed January 3 in a U.S. drone strike near the Baghdad airport

The bill, which allows doctors to deny requests, is awaiting Senate approval or amendments

The Foreign Ministry voiced Iran's protest to the two ambassadors over French and EU criticism of th

The Foreign Ministry voiced Iran's protest to the two ambassadors over French and EU criticism of th

Demonstrations come on heels of Supreme Court rejection Friday night of Texas lawsuit to invalidate

Blaze on island, a UN World Heritage Site, has burned since October

Since 2007, six of the country's top nuclear scientists and researchers have been killed and one has

Militant funerals cause of concern for Indian authorities

Measure passes in response to Friday's killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Analysts tell VOA the killings of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani

Election law experts see this as the last, dying gasp of Trump campaign and say there's no question

President-elect vows to ease limits on temporary workers, loosen visa restrictions for international

Peru's president of Congress is a step closer to becoming the country's third president in a span of

In interviews with Iran-based sources in late October, VOA learned that families of five slain prote

Beijing suspended record-breaking $35 billion stock exchange listing of Ant Group, a spinoff corpora

Some of Malaysia's most remote communities need donations of PPE and food

An omnibus bill passed in early October will attract investors to labor-intensive sectors of the eco

Businessman accused of bankrolling Rwanda's 1994 genocide moved to the Hague for trial//

PM said emergency decree, which would have suspended Parliament before crucial budget vote, was need

The former vice president said he would create a bipartisan commission of constitutional scholars in

The justices will hear a Trump administration appeal of a 2019 lower court ruling that found the pol

White House national security adviser reaffirms plan to decrease US numbers to 2,500  not zero  by

White House national security adviser reaffirms plan to decrease US numbers to 2,500  not zero  by

He'd checked himself into hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus

Local press groups say Phnom Penh court decision to hand TVFB journalist suspended sentence could im

Irina Slavina tied herself to bench near Interior Ministry in Nizhny Novgorod and set herself on fir

In a decision issued late last week, US District Judge Timothy Kelly said he adopted a special exper

Country's journalists look for new ways to report independently after summer of takeovers, walkouts,

Some experts say the country's policy in Xinjiang is converting Uighurs and other native ethnic grou

UN official says Myanmar's national election in early November will not be free or fair; Myanmar obj

Death of the liberal justice gives President Donald Trump an opportunity to add another conservative

In VOA interview, lawyer Saleh Nikbakht criticized Iran's Supreme Court for rejecting his request to

Source close to Navid Afkari's family told VOA Persian that Iran gave no advance warning to wrestler

The deal commits all US troops to leave the South Asian country within 14 months, ending what has be

Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley's poignant advice for those who cannot afford the fines is to put th

Four Iranian Dervishes forced to live in internal exile after release from prison told VOA Persian t

Defense secretary says Indo-Pacific region is 'epicenter' of great power competition, vows not to 'c

About 1,100 cattle herded off coastal ranch to avoid deadly storm surge

Pompeo departed Sunday for Israel, Gulf Arab states and Sudan

Fatemeh Maleki told VOA that Iranian authorities were jailing protesters for sympathizing with victi

The court will read its verdict Tuesday in the case of 4 Hezbollah members charged in the 2005 assas

President referred to the contested argument that the US remains a participant in the 2015 Iran nucl

The Egyptian parliament has authorized the country's army to deploy in Libya amid fears of a growing

This marked NASA's ninth journey to the Martian surface

Arsham Rezaee tells VOA Persian the prison term upheld Saturday by an Iranian appeals court was base

National Unity Party plans to field Robert Kyagulanyi, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, for presid

The department said the companies were involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim mi

Appointment of official known for harsh response to protests and media could signal hardline approac

The former head of Mexico's state oil company could be extradited from Spain to face corruption char

President wants to bar foreign students from staying in US if schools don't hold in-person classes

Why Beijing is making investments in groups setting technical standards

Fianna Fail will govern with Fine Gael  the party of outgoing leader Leo Varadkar  and with the sm

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi calls on forces from each of Libya's rival governments to observe a cease-fire