A so-called war monitor group says militants have executed 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, in separate incidents in the coastal and central regions of Syria.

Iraqi officials arrest five people for involvement in the execution of prominent Shia cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister during the reign of the Ba’ath regime decades ago.

Iran has summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Tehran over the execution of six Iranian nationals in the Arab kingdom.

Iran urges the UN Security Council to deploy effective and comprehensive sanctions against the Israeli regime as a means of stopping its deadly atrocities.

Ambassador Markus Potzel was summoned over Berlin officials meddling in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic.

US prison authorities in Idaho postponed the execution of death row inmate Thomas Creech.

Iranian Judiciary authorities execute people convicted of working for the Israeli Mossad spy agency and plotting a bomb attack against a Defense Ministry factory in the country’s central province of Isfahan.