The National Audit Office (NAO), Whitehall’s spending watchdog, in a report put out on Friday, found that efforts by the government to improve prison conditions, with record levels of safety breaches and “huge” backlogs in repairs, are failing to produce the desired results and that plans to “provide and maintain safe, secure and decent prisons” had not been carried out.

Saudi regime forces have raided an area in the oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, killing at least two political dissidents.

Iraq is going to repatriate 125 children born to Turkish Daesh Takfiri terrorists to Turkey later this month.

Turkey has arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over his alleged membership of the network that Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016.

The Turkish Interior Ministry on Monday suspended three mayors in eastern and southeastern Turkey on charges of supporting terrorism.

A Moroccan court sentences three to death for their alleged role in killing two Scandinavian women.

An Iraqi court in the capital Baghdad has sentenced to death the last two French nationals on trial in the Arab country for belonging to Daesh.