Guns drawn, Iranian intelligence agents rushed into the apartment of a Washington Post reporter and his journalist wife in Tehran.  Threatening to kill Jason Rezaian in front of his wife, Yeganeh, the 20 agents in the July 2014 raid tore through their belongings and rifled through drawers, clothes and valuables for an hour. 

It was in a room packed with reporters on Wednesday night that the last serious challenger in the Egyptian presidential elections announced his intention to step down. Khaled Ali, a well-known, left-leaning activist, told the room he could no longer continue the race, citing “many violations” on the part of the electoral commission, and violence against his staff. “There was a furious reaction to our campaign,” he told journalists, “the security forces arrested many members of my staff.”

Washington should offer to sell aerial refueling tankers to help Taiwan to counter China's ongoing military constriction involving air and sea exercises surrounding the island democracy, and i

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has succeeded in squashing democracy ahead of the country's upcoming election.

Brazil will use blockchain – the technology behind the bitcoin currency – to curtail fraud. The move comes on the heels of a four-year, high-level corruption investigation, but experts warn that this attempt will not be a silver-bullet fix.

Legislation making it illegal to say Poland helped Germans during WWII sparks furious response from Israel.

Alexei Navalny was released from jail hours after he was arrested at a Moscow street protest calling for a presidential election boycott.

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro may be cruising to a second six-year term after his regime's abrupt decision last week to move up the coming election, catching an already battered opposition off guard.

The former governor voiced intense frustration that Rubio, a fellow moderate on immigration, has not tried to lead on the DACA debate.