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(CNN) — Farnaz Seifi was arrested as she waited to fly out of a Tehran airport in 2007. Her crime? A blog calling for women’s equality in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Originally on her way to a cyber-journalism workshop in India, [...]

Editor’s note: Susan Hasler spent 21 years at the CIA in many roles, including counterterrorism analyst, and is the author of “Intelligence: A novel of the CIA.” She is among the analysts featured in a new HBO documentary, [...]

(CNN) — Syrian troops took control of large swaths of territory in the flashpoint city of Homs on Thursday, encircling an opposition suburb, an activist group said. The Syrian Coalition reported government forces targeted a suspension [...]

Jerusalem (CNN) — The body shrouded in white with blue trim passed through the crowd of mourners who wept openly. Hearts broke as a small child was held up to kiss his deceased father goodbye for the last time. The boy was one of five [...]

Washington (CNN) — Federal authorities are investigating a potential case of human trafficking at the suburban Washington home of a Saudi diplomat, officials said Wednesday. Authorities were called Tuesday afternoon to an upscale neighborhood [...]

Read a version of this story in Arabic. (CNN) — More people died violently in Iraq in April than in any other month in nearly five years, the United Nations said Thursday. A total of 712 people died and 1,633 more sustained injuries [...]

(CNN) — For the generation of Iraqi artists who came of age under Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, one common subject was the dictator himself, often depicted holding a sword or riding an Arabian horse. Politics aside, those [...]

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(CNN) — For the generation of Iraqi artists who came of age under Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, one common subject was the dictator himself, often depicted holding a sword or riding an Arabian horse. Politics aside, those [...]

Baghdad (CNN) — Attackers killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 30 others in Iraq on Wednesday, police and health officials said. The violence comes amid growing tensions, particularly between Sunnis and Shiites. Scores of [...]

Editor’s note: Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. Follow him on Twitter. (CNN) [...]

(CNN) — Syria’s president made a rare public appearance Wednesday. Bashar al-Assad visited the Umawyeen Electricity Station at Tishreen Park in Damascus to commemorate Workers’ Day. He congratulated the station’s [...]

(CNN) — Syria’s president made a rare public appearance Wednesday. Bashar al-Assad visited the Umawyeen Electricity Station at Tishreen Park in Damascus to commemorate Workers’ Day. He congratulated the station’s [...]

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(CNN) — A wave of violence struck Iraq on Tuesday, with bomb blasts and gun battles killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, police officials told CNN. It’s the latest violence to strike Iraq, where nearly 200 people [...]

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Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation, and the author of “Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad”, the basis for [...]

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Editor’s note: CNN’s senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon based in Beirut, is an award-winning journalist and also one of the network’s Iraq specialists. In 2010 she investigated the state of Iraq as the U.S. moved [...]

Jerusalem (CNN) — A Palestinian man kills an Israeli settler at a bus stop in the West Bank. Another Palestinian is stabbed in an ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood. And an Israeli airstrike claims the life of a Palestinian in Gaza. The [...]

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Baghdad (CNN) — At least 25 people were killed and 69 others were wounded in five car bombings in Iraq on Monday, police said, amid an uptick in longstanding tensions between Sunnis and Shiites. Four of the blasts occurred in the Shiite [...]

(CNN) — Three British citizens held on drug charges in the United Arab Emirates since July could face a verdict as early as Monday. Grant Cameron, Karl Williams, and Suneet Jeerh, all in their mid-20s, have pleaded not guilty to charges [...]

(CNN) — Iraq’s government ordered 10 television networks shut down Sunday, accusing them of stoking sectarian violence with “unprofessional” and “unethical” coverage of recent clashes in the country’s [...]

Editor’s note: Inna Shevchenko is one of the leaders of international movement Femen, which uses topless protest as a way to raise the profile of women’s rights. She says Islamist leaders enslave women by asserting control over [...]

London (CNN) — The days of would-be terrorists needing to travel to far-off camps to make contacts and learn how to build bombs is rapidly receding. Social media forums like Twitter and Facebook provide a ready made Rolodex of sources [...]

(CNN) — Three British citizens held on drug charges in a UAE jail since last July could face a verdict as early as Monday. Grant Cameron, Karl Williams, and Suneet Jeerh, all in their mid-20s, have pleaded not guilty to charges of consumption [...]