Yoon is under investigation for his martial law declaration and faces criminal charges of insurrection, which could result in life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish those behind a "barbaric terrorist attack" on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine. Kyiv has denied any connection, and Putin made no reference to the Islamic State...

Israeli forces, according to the Gaza health ministry, fired at "patient rooms" and arrested staff at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza City during a "siege" that lasted several days. The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said the same day that the hospital director and about 70 other medical staff were...

According to the company's liquidator, Su Zhu was detained at Singapore's Changi airport while trying to leave the city-state. He was one of the co-founders of collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. The company filed for bankruptcy last year when its fortunes suffered a sharp decline after a massive...

BEIRUT, LEBANON -The Lebanese army arrested 134 migrants near the northern border with Syria on Saturday after foiling their attempt to take a boat to Europe, it said in a statement. The group of would-be migrants -- made up of 130 Syrians and four Lebanese nationals -- were taken into custody...

MUSCAT, OMAN - Oman announced the seizure of over six million captagon pills during a bust aided by Saudi Arabia that resulted in the arrest of a smuggling network. "In cooperation with Saudi authorities", police in the sultanate tracked and ambushed an "international network that was smuggling large quantities of drugs...

Beirut, Lebanon--A Saudi national who had been kidnapped in Beirut has been freed in a "special operation" by the Lebanese army near the Syrian border, it said in a statement Tuesday. "An army intelligence patrol managed to free kidnapped Saudi national Mashari al-Mutairi during a special operation on the Syrian border,"...

Lebanon has received an Interpol red notice requesting the arrest of central bank governor Riad Salameh after a French magistrate issued a warrant this week, a judicial official said. Salameh, 72, has been the target of a series of judicial investigations both at home and abroad on allegations including fraud,...

A French investigating magistrate issued an international arrest warrant for Lebanon's central bank chief Riad Salameh, a source close to the case said. Salameh earlier failed to appear for questioning by French investigators who want to know how he amassed sizeable assets across Europe, his lawyer said.

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Since being ousted from office by a vote of no confidence last year, former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has vowed he will captain the country a second time. But on Tuesday, the one-time international cricket star was arrested as he appeared at Islamabad High Court to face...

Condemning the arrests of political opponents in Tunisia, the US government on Wednesday said that respect for freedom of expression and human rights are essential "to the US-Tunisia relationship." The condemnation follows the arrest on Monday of former Speaker of Parliament Rached Ghannouchi and the closure of the Ennahdha party...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A former Iraqi religious official convicted of corruption has escaped police custody, prompting the arrest of more than two dozen officers suspected of helping him flee, the government said Wednesday. Saad Qambash was once head of Iraq's Sunni Waqf, the state body overseeing religious and civilian properties for...

Baghdad, Iraq--Iraqi police arrested overnight almost 200 people in raids on illegal casinos where alcohol was served in defiance of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The raids targeted four locations in Baghdad where games of blackjack and roulette had been underway, ministry spokesman Saad Maan...

Washington, United States--President Joe Biden on Friday called for Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is being held on espionage charges, while rebuffing a call from the paper's editorial board to expel Russian journalists from the United States. Asked by White House reporters what his message was...

Trump's pending arrest throws a political grenade into next year's White House race and President Joe Biden sidestepped questions from reporters about the indictment of the Republican he beat in 2020 and could potentially face again in November of next year. "I have no comment on Trump," Biden said.

China has urged the International Criminal Court to respect immunity for heads of state and to avoid what it called "double standards". Last week the tribunal issued an arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. China is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the UN...

Donald Trump called on his supporters to "protest, take our nation back", as he expects to be arrested over an alleged hush-money payment made to a porn star in 2016. Amid growing signs of prosecutors moving closer to an indictment, the 76-year-old billionaire said on his Truth Social platform that...

LONDON, UK - The independent network Iran International TV said Saturday it had been forced on UK police advice to shut down its London studios, after a "significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran". "I cannot believe it has come to this," said the network's general manager, Mahmood Enayat, adding that...

An assailant shot and wounded two people in east Jerusalem, Israeli medics said, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven outside a synagogue in one of the deadliest such attacks in years. Police said the suspect was "neutralized" following the latest gun attack in the Silwan neighborhood, just outside Jerusalem's...

More than 100 members of Islamic State group have been arrested by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in an eight-day operation dubbed Operation Al-Jazeera Thunderbolt. The sweep was launched after scuttling an IS attempt to free fellow militants from prison in Raqa, the jihadist group's former Syrian stronghold.

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iranian authorities have arrested a journalist who published interviews with families of death row inmates sentenced in connection with nationwide protests, the reformist daily Etemad said Friday. Fourteen Iranians have been sentenced to death in connection with the unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death in custody on September...

TEHRAN, IRAN  - Iran has summoned the Italian ambassador to protest "interventionist" policies, the foreign ministry said late Thursday, a day after Rome called in Tehran's envoy over its response to nationwide protests. The Islamic republic has been gripped by protests since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini,...

DUBAI, UAE - A Dubai court Thursday authorized the extradition of a British national wanted over an alleged 1.7 billion euro tax fraud in Denmark, the suspect's defense team said, ahead of a further ruling by a higher court. Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah was arrested in Dubai in June,...

Abu Dhabi, UAE-- The UAE Public Prosecution has ordered the arrest of a private company director who was proven to have faked the employment of Emirati citizens. The suspect allegedly forged e-documents, faked employment contracts, and falsely stated that his company had hired Emirati citizens, with the aim of obtaining...

Nearly a month after the downfall of FTX, its founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US. He is scheduled to appear before a US Congress hearing in which he is to testify under oath about the crypto exchange's sudden fall.

With dozens dead in demonstrations all across the country during the last several weeks, Iran now says that "riots" over the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody have reached their final days. Amini was arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code for women.

Nearly a month after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, a cryptocurrency founder, Interpol has issued a red notice for Kwon who flew from South Korea to Singapore ahead of the crash in May. South Korean prosecutors had requested Interpol place him on the red...

Amini, a Kurd, had been detained for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an "improper" way, and died at a Tehran hospital after having spent three days in a coma. Public anger has flared over her death, and at least six protesters have been killed in nationwide demonstrations, according to...

A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, killing one. A statement from the security forces confirmed the death of Firas Yaish and said they were "waiting for a medical report," on the...

Shocked at the death of a Syrian detainee in custody of security officials, Lebanon has arrested five State Security agents on suspicion of torturing to death Bashar Abdel Saud. The arrests were made on the orders of the government’s commissioner to the military courts who had ordered an investigation into...

Lebanon will start an investigation into an audio recording that threatened to attack the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Beirut. In this connection, the interior ministry of Lebanon has ordered the arrest of people guilty of making threats, and also revealed that a Saudi national was likely the man who...

Iran said it had arrested a Swedish national on allegations of espionage, while Sweden's foreign ministry said the case related to an arrest previously revealed in May.

France has expressed deep concern at the "arbitrary" arrests of three Iranian filmmakers, including international prize-winners Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof. Panahi and Rasoulof were "arbitrarily arrested" earlier this month along with Mostafa Aleahmad, the French foreign ministry said.

Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi was arrested Monday, the third director to be detained in less than a week, the Mehr news agency said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards arrested several foreign diplomats including a Briton, accusing them of "spying", the Fars news agency and state television said Wednesday.

Indian police on Monday arrested the co-founder of a top fact-checking website who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, his colleague said. Mohammed Zubair was arrested in Delhi after being called in for questioning in an earlier case, said Pratik Sinha, who runs the Alt-News...

Police have arrested 120 people for breaking Iran's segregation and morality rules at a party in the forest in the northern province of Mazandaran, state media reported Sunday.

Iran has arrested 13 suspected robbers accused of making off with the contents of more than 160 safe boxes from a bank branch in the capital, the judiciary said Friday. The state-owned lender said thieves had taken advantage of a public holiday on Sunday to break into the branch.

A day after the arrest of a British national in Dubai over a $1.7 billion dividend tax fraud case in Denmark, the UAE has said it will continue to pursue people involved in financial crime. Abdullah bin Sultan bin Awad Al Nuaimi, Minister of Justice said: "International crime requires an...

A 52-year-old Briton has been arrested in Dubai over a $1.7 billion dividend-tax fraud case in Denmark, the Gulf emirate's police said Friday. "Dubai police have arrested Sanjay Shah, a suspect in a 12 billion Danish krone ($1.7 billion) dividend-tax fraud case in Denmark," the police tweeted.

A 52-year-old Briton has been arrested in Dubai over a $1.7 billion dividend-tax fraud case in Denmark, the Gulf emirate's police said Friday. "Dubai police have arrested Sanjay Shah, a suspect in a 12 billion Danish krone ($1.7 billion) dividend-tax fraud case in Denmark, with the aim of subsequent extradition for...

Iranian police have arrested academic and author Said Madani on charges of acting "against the security" of the country and of having ties to foreign states, Mehr news agency reported Monday. Madani, 61, professor of sociology at Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, has published several books on social issues in...

Iran's intelligence ministry announced Wednesday that two Europeans had been arrested on accusations of seeking to "destabilize the country", without specifying their nationality. "Two Europeans, who had entered the country with the aim of unleashing chaos and destabilizing society, were identified and arrested," the ministry said in a statement. The...

One of Algeria's leading opposition figures, Karim Tabbou, has been arrested again, rights groups have said. Tabbou was one of the most-recognizable faces during unprecedented mass rallies, led by the Hirak pro-democracy movement, that began in February 2019. They demanded a sweeping overhaul of the ruling system in place since...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its crew members, state media said Sunday, in the third such incident reported this month. The Guards "seized a foreign vessel carrying 200,000 liters of smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf and directed it to Bushehr...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign boat smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its 11 crew members, a senior justice official said Saturday.

Moroccan police have arrested four people suspected of involvement in an international drug and organ trafficking network operating in particular between Morocco and Turkey, a security source said Tuesday.

A Lebanese judge on Thursday arrested the brother of Central Bank governor Riad Salameh, both of whom are suspected of embezzlement and money laundering, judicial sources said. Judge Ghada Aoun arrested Raja Salameh "after questioning him for three hours", a court official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Riad Salameh...

A former justice minister and senior figure in Tunisia's Ennahdha party, under house arrest since December, was released Tuesday but remains under investigation on "terrorism" charges, the government said. Noureddine Bhiri had been detained by plainclothes police officers on New Years' Eve and placed under house arrest -- as was...

Iranian police have arrested 17 university graduates on suspicion of filming candid camera horror pranks that boosted their social media followings but "sowed panic" in Tehran streets.