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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blames "Americans and Zionists" for the recent protests. The Shiite Muslim hard-liner says money supporting the citizens came from "one of the filthy-rich governments of the Persian Gulf." (Associated Press/File)

Iran tortures, kills protesters; 8,000 citizens arrested

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 9, 2017, file photo, black smoke from continuing military air strikes rises above a mosque in Marawi city, southern Philippines. The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, it has documented a variety of serious violations of humanitarian law, some amounting to war crimes, during the five-month conflict between Philippine government troops and Islamic State-allied militants who laid siege to the southern city of Marawi. .(AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Rights group: Militants, troops violated law in Marawi siege

By TERESA CEROJANO - Associated Press

Cameroon sentences opposition leader to 25 years in prison

Associated Press

US investigating allegations of torture by Cameroon troops

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

A former detainee shows how he was kept in handcuffs and leg shackles while held in a secret prison at Riyan airport in the Yemeni city of Mukalla in this May 11, 2017 photo. He covered his face for fear of being detained again. He and other former detainees say abuses are widespread in a network of secret prisons run by the United Arab Emirates and its Yemeni allies, into which hundreds detained in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry)

In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 10, 2017 photo, Amnesty International East Asia Director Nicholas Bequelin, left, and Deputy Director of Global Issues James Lynch hold the copies of reports on the death penalty during a press conference in Hong Kong. Human rights activists say China's use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after the nation's execution rate fell sharply in recent years. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Amnesty International worried about El Chapo jail conditions

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Wife says Cuban dissident gets 3 years on assault charge

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, provided by Morton County Sheriff's Department, law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D. Prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena for Steve Martinez, a pipeline opponent from Williston, N.D., who had been ordered to testify about the violent clash in November. (Morton County Sheriff's Department via AP)

Officers’ spouses terrorized by threats of murder, rape during Dakota Access pipeline protest

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Tribal leaders' peaceful protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline has erupted into violent encounters with police from outside agitators. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Violent protests upend left wing’s formerly peaceful image

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Houses in a tiny Yemeni village were damaged in a January 29 U.S. raid that left at least 25 Yemenis and a U.S. Navy SEAL dead, showing how difficult it is to tell who is al Qaeda in a country where the militants are mingled with tribes and are fighting on the same side as the government against the rebels. (Associated Press)

Navy SEALs found Yemeni enemies well-prepared for combat in deadly raid

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Dallas immigration attorney Fatma Marouf holds up a bond order in front of the federal building after leaving immigration court in Dallas, Thursday, March 2, 2017, from a federal immigration judge for Sara Beltran Hernandez, a Salvadoran woman seeking asylum. An immigration judge has granted bond to Hernandez so she can leave a detention facility to seek treatment for a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Claudia Lauer)

US asylum seeker with brain tumor granted bond to seek care

By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is seen at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. President Donald Trump is sending his Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made all the more challenging by the actual fence he wants to build on the southern border. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Rex Tillerson told by senators: Hold Syria, Bashar Assad accountable for war crimes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times