In coverage of covid-19, female scientists and doctors are cited far less frequently than their male counterparts, according to multicountry studies.

Iran's cheap energy and high inflation have made it a center for cryptocurrency mining.

Nika Shakarami disappeared in Tehran on Sept. 20 after burning her headscarf in protest and being followed by security forces, her family says.

Raising the red, green, white and black Palestinian flag is banned in Israel. So the watermelon — locally grown and similarly colored — has for decades served in Palestinian iconography as a subver...

In coverage of covid-19, female scientists and doctors are cited far less frequently than their male counterparts, according to multicountry studies.

CCTV footage sheds new light on an August raid by Israeli forces on the Ramallah offices of Al Haq, the leading Palestinian human rights group.

As protests rocked Iran, The Washington Post connected with three artists in the country who spoke about how the uprising had inspired their work.

In the year since Shireen Abu Akleh was killed with apparent impunity, her family has demanded an independent investigation. They are still waiting for justice.

The country grieves for and has begun to memorialize the departed.

Diana Zeyad Abu al-Ouf laid in a hospital in Gaza suffering from several pelvic fractures, unable to speak or move except for her eyes, which would dart around the room, often wet with tears.

Journalists at the Jerusalem holy site documented police arbitrarily denying access, delivering beatings, and firing on reporters with rubber-coated bullets.

Israeli military raids, Palestinian attacks in Israel and a rise in settler violence all contributed to the high death toll in 2022, rights groups said.

Here's how the siege of the city compares with others in Syria through nearly nine years of conflict.

Some Afghan women have begun an online campaign against the Taliban by sharing pictures of intricate outfits traditional for their regions, tribes and ethnic groups.

In Iran, the trials of protesters, bystanders and chroniclers of the uprising have begun. But there is little expectation of due process.

Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi have been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison since late September as Iran’s clerical leaders have struggled to contain an outpouring of public anger...

Syrians have long struggled in Lebanon. Recent events have brought a new cascade of problems.

With free speech tightly curtailed inside Iran, Twitter offers a rare platform for Iranians both in and outside the country to publicly confront their leaders.

The violence could undo fragile gains against Gaza’s worst outbreak since the pandemic began.

The global rise of the omicron variant and the revival of restrictions could once again intensify the conditions that allow domestic violence to persist and put more strain on already-limited safety...

Nearly four dozen people have been killed in the northwest region in recent days amid efforts to suppress weeks of protests, human rights groups said.

Vaccination programs from Russia to the United Kingdom are excluding women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning for a pregnancy because the vaccine candidates were not clinically tested on...

Aid groups working in war-torn countries often have to flee just when help is most needed.

Some women have thrown themselves into volunteering. Others are consumed by child care, financial worries and family expectations.

The win against the virus came at a cost.

The death of Mahsa Aminia in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police has sparked days of anti-government demonstrations — and a violent crackdown.

In interviews with The Post over the last week, three residents of Sanandaj, in Iran's Kurdistan region, described a military-style occupation of their city.

The siege at a U.S. Embassy in Baghdad shows Iraq's fraught position between Washington and Tehran.

The price paid by this generation of Iranian student activists is rising by the day. And as the repression deepens, their demands are becoming more radical.

In the first year of the coronavirus crisis women’s employment declined by 54 million, or 4.2 percent, compared with 3 percent for men.

In earlier generations, Palestinian political factions ran the brigades during street fighting against Israel. Now, teenagers and young men are calling the shots.

The books, movies and shows that can help explain the world.

Mass detentions of Iranian protesters have taken a heavy physical and psychological toll on the people cycling through prison.

ברוכים הבאים אחינו האמירתים המגיעים לבקר בישראל: נועם שוסטר-אליאסי הכינה לכם מדריך למטייל בארץ היפה שלנו. מתוך התכנית מהצד השני עם גיא זהר, בכל ערב בכאן...

Diplomatic missions to the Palestinians met with representatives of al-Haq, one of the Palestinian groups that has long denied any terrorist links.

Labor disruptions on a level that could add exponential weight to Iran's protest movement remain difficult to envision, activists and analysts say.

Students from universities across Iran talk to The Washington Post about their role in the protests, amid constant surveillance and the threat of arrest.

In the Gaza Strip, 30 people were killed Tuesday, among them 10 children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The initial ordeal of clearing the city’s debris has turned into a daily struggle to reconstruct.

At daybreak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of himself, unshaven, on the capital’s streets — proof of his apparent commitment to remain in Kyiv.

On Tuesday, Israel’s Health Ministry and council for gynecological health updated its guidance to recommend the coronavirus vaccine for pregnant women, especially those with preexisting health issues...

Iran's former crown prince is now an advocate of regime change from Washington.

The initial ordeal of clearing the city’s debris has turned into a daily struggle to reconstruct.

Denmark's left-wing government has taken a strong anti-immigrant stand.

Women have been at the forefront of the anti-government demonstrations sweeping Iran. Experts explain what exactly Iran's morality police do, and why women are risking their lives on the front lines...

After a bloody day of confrontations that left 300 Palestinians injured, Hamas retaliated by launching 200 rockets toward Jerusalem and southern Israel.

The “citizenship law,” barring Palestinians in Israel from extending citizenship to spouses, split even the prime minister’s own party

Already accustomed to following U.S. politics because of its global impact, activists see echoes of and implications for their own struggles.

Nothing is truly the same in Afghanistan for many women whose lives were turned inside out after the Taliban sealed control last summer.

In the besieged streets of Ottawa, dance parties between fleets of trucks raged as the “Freedom Convoy” standoff sped into its third week.

Facing the first elections they have ever been able to vote in, young Palestinians are demanding reforms in the parliamentary and presidential polls later this year.

For Palestinian journalists, the death of Shireen Abu Akleh was a reminder of the regular dangers they face covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.

Iran’s clerical leaders are betting the crackdown will help quell the unrest, now in its seventh week, but risk further radicalizing the public against them.

For some people, staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic recalls previous periods spent sheltering in place, not during an outbreak, but in times of turmoil and social upheaval.

Israelis are particularly wary of a shift in White House policy on Iran.

The resolution of one long-standing aim for Tehran, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, is unleashing another challenge: what to do about the Taliban.

Vaccine selfies flood social media feeds and families are reuniting in the United States as many Indian Americans are struggling to help loved ones with the coronavirus access medical care in India.

The global rise of the omicron variant and the revival of restrictions could once again intensify the conditions that allow domestic violence to persist and put more strain on already-limited safety...