Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public, under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime.

Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that ...

Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capita...

Iran’s judiciary rejects as “fake” a BBC report that alleges security forces killed Nika Shakarami.

Revolutionary Guards' papers passed to the BBC give chilling details of Nika Shakarami’s last movements.