Iranian security forces have killed at least 448 people in a crackdown on protests that began in mid-September, over half in ethnic minority regions, a rights group said yesterday.

Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Palestinian officials said, before a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli medics and the army said.

The families of Iran's World Cup soccer team have been threatened with imprisonment and torture if the players fail to "behave" ahead of the match against the USA, a source involved in the security of the games said.

More than 300 people have been killed in Iran since protests erupted over the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, a Revolutionary Guards general said today.

Iran will reject a newly-appointed independent UN investigation into the country’s repression of anti-government protests, the foreign ministry said yesterday, as demonstrations showed no sign of abating.

Iranian authorities have arrested a niece of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after she recorded a video describing the authorities led by her uncle as a “murderous and child-killing regime”.

An Iranian bank manager who served an unveiled woman has been fired, local media reported on Sunday, as demonstrations triggered by the mandatory head covering rule shake the Islamic republic.

Shafeeq Saqafi paid three dollars for the Argentina shirt he proudly wore when sat with 15,000 other migrant workers in a hidden corner of Doha to watch Lionel Messi's side salvage their World Cup.

Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council decision to probe the Islamic republic’s response to unrest following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iranian security forces yesterday arrested ex-national football player Voria Ghafouri over accusations that he spread “propaganda” against the Islamic republic, Fars news agency reported.

Explosions hit two bus stops in Jerusalem yesterday, killing a teen and wounding 14, in unclaimed attacks cheered by Palestinian militant group Hamas.

An improvised bomb has killed an Iranian colonel from the aerospace division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps near Syria’s capital Damascus, Iranian media reported yesterday, blaming arch foe Israel.

At least 15 people were wounded in two separate explosions targeting bus stations in Jerusalem Wednesday, security and medical officials said, with Israel's public security minister calling them "attacks."

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northwest Turkey during Wednesday's early hours, injuring at least 35 people.

The Kremlin said yesterday that it respects what it calls Turkey’s “legitimate” security concerns over Syria but said all parties there should avoid steps that could worsen the situation.

Iran said yesterday it had begun producing uranium enriched to 60 percent at its Fordo plant, an underground facility that reopened three years ago amid the breakdown of its nuclear deal with major powers.

Turkey will attack militants with tanks and soldiers soon, President Tayyip Erdogan said, signalling a possible ground offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria after retaliatory strikes escalated along the Syrian border..His comments came as Turkish artillery kept up bombardment of Kur

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday threatened to launch a ground operation into Syria after cross-border air strikes on Kurdish positions and deadly fire on Turkey.

The Israeli army carried out an arrest raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank on Monday, touching off confrontations in which medics said its troops shot dead a Palestinian high-schooler.

Iran has arrested two prominent actors who expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their headscarves in public in an apparent act of defiance against the regime, state media reported Sunday..Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were both detained after being summoned by