The Latest Breaking News from Hafez

The United States was pushing Thursday for an "inclusive" transition in Syria from president Bashar al-Assad's brutal rule, after the country's new leaders pledged to protect minority rights.

Burial procession for Mazen al-Hamada saw marchers hold signs of other missing detainees and chants for Bashar al-Assad to face trial

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank denounce attacks by Israeli settlers.

Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, has died in Cologne, Germany

A 26-year-old Afghan man is charged with endangering his child’s life by taking him on a dinghy that capsized.

The US Department of State issued a highly anticipated report to Congress on the estimated net worth and known sources of income of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family, estimated at between $1-2 billion. The report examines the finances of Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, Bashar’s brother Maher…