Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
The cell was behind half-a-dozen public executions of Western hostages
US president made the comments just hours before revealing he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus
Election is projected to be 50% more expensive than the 2016 one
President refused to directly disavow them and similar groups when asked by debate moderator Chris Wallace
Those questions will likely dominate her Supreme Court confirmation hearing
The groups are known as ‘dark money’ groups because they aren’t required by law to disclose the names of their donors
Obamacare, abortion rights and economic and social protections for LGBTQ community will likely draw focus of Senate hearings
Death of the liberal justice gives President Donald Trump an opportunity to add another conservative to the bench, shifting the court's ideological balance
Alleged hacking of more than 100 companies and other entities in the US and in other countries reportedly resulted in millions of dollars in losses
Last December, the Department of Homeland Security issued a strategic framework on countering terrorism and targeted violence, singling out domestic terrorism as a growing threat
Something that election integrity advocates may see as an instance of fraud, voting rights advocates might view as a clerical error or an honest mistake
Bureau has identified nearly 500 individuals suspected of defrauding a paycheck protection assistance program that received at least $525 billion in forgivable government loans
But city officials say their own crime-fighting strategy is behind the reduction in killings
Attorney General echoes Trump’s campaign rhetoric that left-wing radicals have hijacked the protests over racial justice
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Left-wing protest movement has resorted to violence in the past in opposition to right-wing extremist groups but has stopped short of lethal tactics
In question are orders issued at the height of the pandemic by the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan requiring nursing homes to accept all COVID-19 patients
Enterprise fraudulently obtained copyrighted DVDs and Blu-Ray discs from wholesale distributors and disseminated them online before their release dates, according to indictments unsealed in New York
Law enforcement presence at US polling places is uncommon, with federal and some state laws strictly prohibiting their presence near polling places
Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, who left the army in 2008, allegedly worked for Russian military intelligence from 1996 to 2011
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