Middle East

Homosexuality is punishable by death in many Middle Eastern countries. The Orlando shooter took those laws seriously.

Hamas operatives thought Israel might have blackmailed him into ratting out a Hamas top dog.

A gay imam from Algeria is working with a local LGBT association to counsel and protect young gay Muslims who make their way to the ancient French port city of Marseille.

The hack exposes the names of users who live in places where homosexual is punishable by death.

Images from ISIS purport to show two men bThe Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq has published photographs that appear to show a man being thrown from the roof of a tall building apparently in Mosul, as punishment for being gay.

An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted 26 men arrested in a televised raid last month by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse, a ruling that set off deafening cheers and jubilation.

The judge in the trial of 26 men arrested in Egypt in a televised raid by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse says he’ll announce a verdict next week after only three hearings.

Defense lawyers for 26 men arrested in a televised raid by police looking for gays at an Egyptian bathhouse criticized the prosecution’s case when the trial resumed Sunday.

An Egyptian appeals court has upheld the conviction of eight men for “inciting debauchery” for appearing in an alleged same-sex wedding video, but reduced their sentences from three to one year in prison.

The handcuffed defendants, many of them crying, arrived in court with their heads bowed as police pushed them inside a metal cage.