Two months after anti-regime activists blasted the regime for “spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights,” former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is calling on Tehran to release all the country’s political prisonersKhatami published his comments on his official website following...

Hamas is scrambling to prevent widening domestic unrest from escalating into a genuine threat to the Palestinian terror group’s control over the Gaza Strip. Al-Monitor this weekend surveyed an array of crackdowns initiated by Hamas officials, from the targeting of activists who support Hamas’s rival Fatah to the harassment of...

Iranian officials Tuesday blamed technical glitch for the creation of a brief window Monday in which Iranian citizens were allowed to access banned social media sites, reimposing restrictions and pointedly warning that they would be “investigating to see which… companies” had lifted the filters. Early on Tuesday Reuters reported that official policy had...

Reuters reports Syrians are growing increasingly aware of extensive Israeli efforts to treat victims of the two and a half year conflict raging inside the Arab country. Israel set up a field hospital early in the conflict. Within a few months Syrians were being transported to regular Israeli hospitals –...

The United Nations Human Rights Council has a permanent agenda item to discuss and criticize Israel, making the Jewish state the only U.N. member marked in that way. The body has found time in recent months to distribute anti-Semitic images and to defend the anti-Semitic rhetoric of employees. What it...

The Syrian conflict has driven tens of thousands of refugees into neighboring countries, triggering both general regional instability and country-specific crises in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. American and U.N. diplomats have described the displacement of literally “millions of people. Sectarian strife locked in by the conflict had already as of...