Rights defenders fear Iraq may give the green light to a spree of executions of convicted jihadists in a show of strength, days after a deadly suicide attack in Baghdad. On Sunday, an official from ...

The execution of prominent Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr is an “aggression”, Iraq’s top Shiite authority Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said in a statement Sunday. “We received with deep sadness ...

Iran secretly executed two Iraqi men last month after convicting them of spying for an Arab country, rights groups said on Thursday, as the Islamic republic intensifies its use of the death penalty as ...

Saudi Arabia has executed multiple Iraqi nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle narcotics into the kingdom through its Northern Borders region, according to an official statement issued on ...

Iraq's Justice Ministry says 14 Iraqis -- most of them members of Al-Qaeda -- have been executed for terrorism and criminal offenses. The executions on February 8 bring to at least 65 the number of ...

An Iraqi nongovernmental organization says it is watching over large numbers of files that detail mass killings in the country and which provide clues to the disappearances of many people. With ...