Saudi authorities executed 356 people in 2025, according to an AFP tally, setting a new record for the number of inmates put ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to come to the aid of protesters in Iran if security forces fire on them, ...

Analysts attribute increase to kingdom’s ‘war on drugs’ as authorities kill 356 people by death penalty ...

DUBAI, Jan 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to come to the aid of ‌protesters ​in Iran if ...

The sharp rise in executions is linked to Riyadh’s intensified “war on drugs” launched in recent years, with many of those ...

Saudi Arabia executed 356 people in 2025, the highest on record, with most deaths linked to drug offences amid an intensified ...

Official government data show that 243 of the executions in 2025 were linked to drug-related offences, AFP reported.

“If Iran shots (sic) and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump wrote. “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.

How is it that, year after year, so many journalists meet such tragic fates? We need to be frank about something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn addressed in a speech at Harvard in 1979: the decline in ...

If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States of America will come to their rescue, he said ...