Iraq on Sunday hanged 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre by jihadists and allied militants of hundreds of military recruits, officials said.
Indonesia executed four convicted drug traffickers, including three Nigerians, early on Friday as it pushed ahead with its "war against drugs", although another 10 scheduled executions were delayed.
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed two convicted murderers, the interior ministry said, raising to 107 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year.
Saudi authorities on Friday executed a national convicted of murdering a compatriot, in the 101st execution of the year in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Pakistan military courts have sentenced eleven Taliban militants to death for terrorism-related offences, the army said Tuesday.
Pakistan on Saturday hanged two brothers convicted of murdering six people from the same family, just days after Amnesty International criticised the country ...
Pakistan hanged three convicted murderers on Wednesday, the same day Amnesty International criticised it for becoming the world's third most prolific executioner after China and Iran.
Saudi Arabia executed two citizens for murder on Monday. Baddah al-Dusari was found guilty of killing Saudi national Abdullah al-Qahtani by repeatedly running him over, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
A court in Saudi Arabia overturned a death sentence against a Palestinian poet convicted of apostasy, giving him eight years in prison instead, his lawyer said.
Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shia Muslim Iran's top leader predicted "divine vengeance" for Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric.
It was feared more than 30,000 litres (7,925 gallons) of sulphuric acid had spilled after all 26 carriages of a freight train carrying the chemical derailed in remote northern Australia ...
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged four men sentenced to death by military courts for assisting in suicide bombings and attacks on soldiers, officials said.