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Security firm recruited 147 women to work in shops and then forced them into slavery.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad increasingly isolated after former allies distance themselves.

Stratfor's emails revealed on WikiLeaks give inside story of how intelligence companies work in the US.

Pro-reform protesters amass for anniversary of mass protests that left 16 people dead and say nothing has changed.

Rare voice in Conservative Party says sanctions and sabre-rattling in nuclear row are yesterday's failed policies.

US military analysts throw doubts on ability of Israel to set back Tehran's assumed nuclear programme with airstrikes.

Syrian conflict lines pockets of arms smugglers in Iraq at a price.

Iran Goes Nuclear: Timeline of Islamic Nation’s Progress

As violence escalates in Syria, al-Qaida backs uprising, putting further pressure on the Arab League and the West.

The President of Iran has made a startling announcement... one sure to set alarm bells ringing throughout the White House, the European Union (EU) and in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Check out photographs of the stylish diva, along with Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt, at a photocall in Berlin...

Twin bomb blasts decimated the Syrian security headquarters at Aleppo on Friday, killing over 25 people in the worst ever violence witnessed in the 11-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Iranian nuclear scientists targeted by sinister group financed, armed and trained by Israeli intelligence, US secret service says.

IBTimes UK looks at the main players in the growing movement for greater political freedoms in Saudi Arabia's tiny island neighbour.

Anonymous: Full Text of Assad's adviser Sheherazad Jaafari to to former Al Jazeera journalist Luna Chebel

Anonymous hackers reveal secret email from former British MP George Galloway to Syria president's aides asking for Gaza Strip convoy help.

The Anonymous collective has responded to Oakland Police's acts of brutality against Occupy protesters, mounting a cyber attack on the city's authorities.

US Marine Frank Wuterich, charged with leading massacre of 24 Iraqis, faces mass leak of legal documents

Artefacts that were stolen from the National Museum of Iraq and archaeological sites during the chaos following the U.S. occupation in 2003 have been returned by Germany.

Kicking it One Last Time: Top 5 Footballers Who Died on the Pitch

Baghdad suicide bomber in explosives-packed car kills at least 28 and injures 61 at funeral procession.

Iran and Hezbollah increasingly accused of joining forces with opposition group al-Wefaq to topple the government of Bahrain.

American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were working for the Danish Deming Group when they were taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Ex-Marine and Iraq war veteran arrested Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, after he killed a 64-year-old man outside a fast-food restaurant in Yorba Linda.

Legendary boxer’s work as humanitarian after his boxing career changed social values and was inspirational.

Bradley Manning, the American soldier who is accused of giving hundreds of thousands of secret documents to Wikileaks, may face a full court martial and life imprisonment.

Homeless Julie Nelson denies reports she was physically aggressive before been hit in the face by police officer.

In view of intelligence inputs which warned that Sami Mohamed Ali al-Fadli, 20, may launch an attack either on a UK location or on an aircraft bound for the country, Home Secretary Theresa May ordered a ban on the terror suspect.

Well-known and award-winning French journalist Gilles Jacquier has been killed in Homs, Syria, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.

A French journalist has been killed in Homs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.