Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
Decision by prosecutors to dismiss assault charges against the bodyguards is likely to ease US-Turkey tensions escalated by incident outside Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington
Attorney General's memo comes two days after President Trump unveiled plans to fight opioid epidemic
Measures allow law enforcement — and sometimes family — to obtain an order to temporarily take weapons from gun owner deemed 'immediate and present danger'
Eberhard Reichart, 78, admitted to conspiring with Argentine officials to win a $1 billion contract to create national ID cards
New Justice Department initiative will take on painkiller manufacturers and distributors who overprecribe and allow use of prescription pills by drug addicts
Case, known as United States v. Microsoft Corp., centers on whether a US-based email provider can be forced to turn over a user's communications that it stores outside the US
Rick Gates lodges guilty plea, Manafort maintains innocence in the face of new charges
Defendants, many of them foreign nationals living outside United States, are accused of robbing more than one million elderly Americans of more than $1 billion, officials say
Some longtime gun control advocates say they have never seen anything else like the movement that has sprouted in the wake of last week's Florida school shooting
California man pleaded guilty to using stolen identities to set up bank accounts that were then used by the Russians
Indictment alleges Russia's Internet Research Agency, a propaganda outfit tied to the Kremlin, engaged 'in operations to interfere with elections and political processes'
Moscow sees November congressional polls as potential target for 'influence operations,' says Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
With over 117,000 personnel, Justice Department is fourth largest federal government agency
Never before has a president gone as far as Trump in attacking the nation's top law enforcement agencies and their leaders
Memo's key allegation is that Justice Department, FBI improperly obtained series of electronic surveillance warrants on former Trump associate Carter Page, as part of probe into Russian interference in 2016 US election
Trump has said he is '100 percent' for release of memo, but he has yet to disclose it
FBI's No. 2 official had become a lightning rod for Trump and Republican criticism of the Russia investigation
Criminologists say there is little evidence Trump administration policies have significantly contributed to slight dip in violent crime in United States during first half of 2017
Jeff Sessions is first member of Trump Cabinet known to have been questioned by Robert Mueller's office since special counsel took over Russia probe
Brendt A. Christensen, 28, is charged with June 9, 2017, killing and abduction of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old international scholar at University of Illinois
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