Italy's foreign ministry says an Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police ...

Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested on Dec. 19, but news of her detention only became public on Friday. The reason for the arrest ...

The arrest comes as regimes increasingly resort to seizing Westerners for leverage.

Iran's football ethics body has summoned national team player Ramin Rezeian to explain the incident that involved him hugging a woman, an Iranian agency reported.

Italy said on Friday it was making every effort to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, as politicians of all stripes expressed their concern.

Assad regime collected intel on SIRAJ journalists after its reporting on Syria’s use of Western-made tanks triggered more ...