TEHRAN, May 16 - Police in Indonesia have gunned down four of five men who attempted to attack officers with samurai swords after driving their car into the police headquarters on Sumatra Island.
TEHRAN, May 10 -Pakistani police have detained the father and brother of an Italian woman of Pakistani descent who was strangled in a suspected “honor killing” case.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Kazakh police detained dozens of people who demonstrated in the Central Asian nation's biggest city on Thursday after an opponent of President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged his followers to protest.
TEHRAN, May 7 - A US pastor who is being tried in Turkey on charges of terrorism and espionage has rejected the allegations against him as “shameful and disgusting.”
TEHRAN, May 7 - Indonesia's counter-terrorism squad has arrest ed three extremists accused of plotting bomb attacks against police using high-explosive materials, an official said Monday.
TEHRAN, May 6 - Iran's security forces have arrest ed a person linked to the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who was planning to carry out acts of sabotage in the holy city of Mashhad.
TEHRAN, May 4 - Venezuela has arrest ed the president of Banesco, the country's leading private bank, along with 10 executives on suspicion of "attacks" on the local currency, the country's top prosecutor said Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 3 - Doha denounced Saudi Arabia's arrest of a Qatari national in Yemen as a "flagrant violation" of the law amid a diplomatic standoff between the Persian Gulf Arab countries.
TEHRAN, May 2 - Turkish police forces have arrest ed at least 33 people on suspicion of links to an outlawed movement led by US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
TEHRAN, May 2 - Nearly 300 protesters were arrest ed Tuesday after May Day riots in central Paris, where hooded youths torched a McDonald's restaurant and several vehicles during a march against President Emmanuel Macron's public sector reforms.
TEHRAN, April 20 -Police in Armenia have arrest ed scores of opposition supporters amid ongoing protests and sit-ins in the capital, Yerevan, against the parliament’s election of former President Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister.
TEHRAN, April 20 - Dozens were arrest ed as hundreds of opposition supporters staged sit-ins and attempted to block road traffic in Armenia's capital Friday to protest ex-president Serzh Sarkisian's election as prime minister.
TEHRAN, March 28 - Tel Aviv’s forces have arrest ed hundreds of undocumented Palestinian laborers working in Israel ahead of Jewish holidays during a massive operation denounced by rights activists as “racist.”
TEHRAN, March 26 - Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday, five months after entering self-imposed exile from Spain, where he faces up to 25 years in prison for organizing an illegal secession referendum last year.
TEHRAN, March 23 - A South Korean court on Thursday approved an arrest warrant for ex-President Lee Myung-bak over a range of corruption allegations, making him the latest in a series of leaders embroiled in scandals and other problems after leaving office.
TEHRAN, March 19 - An Iranian court on Monday handed down death sentence for a rioter that had driven a bus into a group of police officers during a February mob attack in north Tehran.
TEHRAN, February 20 - Three months on from Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on corruption — which saw hundreds of the country’s elite arrest ed — most detainees have now been released, and Riyadh is trying to lure investors back.