Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown on ...

Iran's judiciary chief has signaled fast trials and executions for those detained in nationwide protests. This comes despite ...

The number of dead climbed to at least 2,571 early on Wednesday, as reported by the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

In the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump quickly took up the cause of a 35-year-old veteran named Ashli Babbitt. “Who killed Ashli Babbitt?” he asked ...

Nationwide protests in Iran are putting new pressure on its theocracy as the country faces an economic crisis DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic ...

This admission is crucial. The regime has long tried to portray dissent as sporadic, leaderless, or foreign-inspired. Yet the pattern is now undeniable. Resistance Units affiliated with the People's ...

There are many interesting tidbits about the life of the political prisoner Jimmy Lai. He hid in the bottom of a fishing boat to escape mainland Communist China for Hong Kong at the ripe age of 12. He ...

Guilty. The verdict is not a surprise. No one actually expected the Chinese Communist Party to acquit Jimmy Lai. That would be to admit that it was wrong in imprisoning him in the first place. And ...

Fraser Nelson’s contention that the Scottish Enlightenment came in reaction to a period of Presbyterian theocracy made me scratch my head (Letters, Dec. 10). Recall the Scots’ National Covenant of ...

The life and work of London-based artist Bernard Canavan, who after a tragic start in life, having been placed in a Dublin orphanage, known as "The House of Shame", rose to become globally known as ...

To the editor: The most frightening characteristic of Trump’s de facto police state are its religious overtones, whereby Trump is considered by faith alone to be an infallible decider of right and ...

Sarah Ruden is a translator, a writer, and a scholar of the ancient world. In her new book, Perpetua (Yale University Press), Ruden offers both a portrait of the ancient martyr and a new translation ...