The family of a 19-year-old Franco-German cyclist arrested in Iran while on a Europe-to-Asia bike trip has said he is "innocent" and demanded proof he was alive from Iranian authorities.

Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person told AFP his five relatives died in an elevator.

Thousands went missing during Syria’s decades-long intervention in Lebanon. Months after the fall of the Syrian regime, ...

A U.N. official says the pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems.