Peter Kenyon

Afghanistan is facing crisis on multiple fronts as borders are closed, farmers in the country are facing a drought and the economy is in free-fall.

A suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 37 people. This follows a similar attack last week. What does it mean for Afghan security?

Recent social media reaction to an event in the Turkish president's family may end up resulting in tighter laws restricting social media in the country.

Iranians have been enduring chronic power cuts and water shortages through a hot summer. When crowds took to the streets to protest, they were met with a violent crackdown by security forces.

A presidential spokesman says media outlets that receive funding from abroad need to be reined in to protect the government from hostile foreign powers.

Iran is inaugurating new president Ebrahim Raisi — someone already under U.S. sanctions for his role in executions in the 1980s, and who is expected to take a hard line in dealings with the West.

U.S.-Iran relations are expected to get even tougher when a new Iranian president takes office Thursday. He's a former prosecutor expected to take a hard line inside and outside the country.

A group of Afghans who fled to Turkey are facing deportation back to their home country: a plight faced by thousands who have sought refuge in Turkey over the last decade and as U.S. troops withdraw.

Five years after an attempted coup shook Turkey and created a sweeping crack down against the president's perceived enemies, journalists look at the state of free speech.

Jamshid Bayrami is an Iranian photographer who dropped out of high school — then became known worldwide for his celebrity shots and protest images, including an iconic one he took in 1999.

As Iranians face 40% inflation, they hope their economy has bottomed out and can't get much worse.

Official figures show that Iran has had about 3 million COVID-19 cases out of a population of 85 million. Iranians believe in vaccines but getting them has been frustrating and slow.

Iran has elected hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi as its next president. Raisi has the strong backing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini.

Iranians have voted for president, and results are coming in. Four candidates were allowed to run. Hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi appears to have won.

Iranians go to vote for a new president Friday with the frontrunner being a hardline former judge. Many voters feel they were given very little choice.

Iranians vote for a president on Friday. In the streets of Tehran the expectation is that a hardliner will win, in part for lack of many other choices.

Turkey is rushing to combat a pollution-caused muck in the Sea of Marmara that's growing across the seabed and excretes a foul mucus on the water's surface.

Voters are concerned about the economy, including a shortage of food and medicine, as well as a lack of COVID-19 vaccines.

Iran has approved the final list of seven candidates in June's presidential election, giving the upper hand to hard-liners. The election could have an impact on relations between Iran and the U.S.

A convicted crime boss in exile is taking on Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as his cabinet in the regular release of videos accusing them of corruption.