Farnaz Fassihi

Kamran Hekmati of Long Island was arrested for visiting Israel 13 years ago to celebrate his son’s bar mitzvah, they said.

Roads, infrastructure and the electricity grid were battered, and over one million people, a third of the population, were directly affected by the storm the official said.

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding.

The U.N. Security Council met Friday to discuss the Trump administration’s deadly attacks on what it asserts were drug smugglers in the Caribbean.

John Kelley, consejero político de la misión estadounidense ante las Naciones Unidas, dijo al Consejo que Washington no reconoce a Maduro y a “sus compinches” como gobierno de Venezuela.

Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, delivered a speech by video to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday in which he thanked countries for recognizing Palestinian statehood.

Masoud Pezeshkian will address the General Assembly as he looks to prevent the imposition of sanctions on his country, this time from the United Nations Security Council.

At a meeting ahead of the U.N. General Assembly, France and other U.S. allies made official a breach with Washington that has been years in the making.

The president of the Palestinian Authority won’t be able to attend the U.N. General Assembly after the Trump administration denied him a visa.