Month: January 1970

View CNN’s Fast Facts about the life of Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

On what may turn out to be his final weekend as Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing for one final fight to remain in power and extend his 12 consecutive … Read More

Marco Rubio said the US needed to fight back against the “extraterritorial reach” of the Chinese government to better protect Uyghurs around the world, citing a CNN investigation into the … Read More

An Iranian navy destroyer ship has reached the Atlantic Ocean, Iran’s deputy army commander, Admiral Habibullah Sayyari said, according to official news agency IRNA.

Read Fast Facts about Mohamed ElBaradei on CNN and learn more about the former director general of the IAEA and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

View the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Fast Facts on CNN and learn more information about al-Assad and Syria.

After reports of Uyghur disappearances in some major Arab countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, some of China’s ethnic Muslims fear they are no longer … Read More

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are dragging out the political process, seeking to undermine a new government set to remove him from power, as the head of the … Read More

Two drones were shot down over an Iraqi airbase housing US troops and Iraqi and coalition forces on Sunday, the Iraqi military said in a statement.

If Naftali Bennett becomes Israel’s leader, he will carry into office a history of incendiary remarks about Palestinians and a well-documented ambition to annex part of the occupied West Bank.