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Afghan Shia Private Schools Face Severe Challenges as Earthquake Adds to Education Crisis
September 15, 2025
Afghan Shia Private Schools Face Severe Challenges as Earthquake Adds to Education Crisis
Afghanistan’s education sector is facing a deepening crisis as private Shia schools struggle under economic, social, and political pressures, while recent earthquakes have caused devastating losses among students and infrastructure. Shia private schools, once a partial alternative to weak public…
UN Halts Cash Assistance to Afghan Returnees Amid Taliban’s Ban on Women Workers
September 15, 2025
UN Halts Cash Assistance to Afghan Returnees Amid Taliban’s Ban on Women Workers
UN Halts Cash Assistance to Afghan Returnees Amid Taliban’s Ban on Women Workers ———————————- The UN refugee agency has suspended cash aid programs for Afghan returnees after the Taliban barred women from working with humanitarian organizations, further deepening the country’s…
Afghans Under Taliban Rule Face Displacement, Press Crackdown, and Winter Survival Threats
September 15, 2025
Afghans Under Taliban Rule Face Displacement, Press Crackdown, and Winter Survival Threats
Recent articles published on Amu TV and Khaama Press indicate worsening humanitarian conditions and deepening crises of human rights violations, including crackdown on media in Taliban-administered Afghanistan. A new report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reveals that nearly…
Pakistan’s PM Warns Taliban to Choose Between Cooperation and Militancy
September 15, 2025
Pakistan’s PM Warns Taliban to Choose Between Cooperation and Militancy
Pakistan’s PM Warns Taliban to Choose Between Cooperation and Militancy ———————————– Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has issued a stark warning to the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, urging them to choose between cooperating with Islamabad and supporting militant groups that…
Syria Sees Surge in Retaliatory Killings Targeting Women and Children
September 15, 2025
Syria Sees Surge in Retaliatory Killings Targeting Women and Children
Syria Sees Surge in Retaliatory Killings Targeting Women and Children …………. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented a wave of retaliatory killings claiming the lives of at least 32 women and 21 children since the beginning of the…
Journalist Death Toll in Yemen Rises to 14 After Israeli Strikes on Media Institutions
September 15, 2025
Journalist Death Toll in Yemen Rises to 14 After Israeli Strikes on Media Institutions
Journalist Death Toll in Yemen Rises to 14 After Israeli Strikes on Media Institutions …………. At least 14 journalists have been killed in Yemen following Israeli airstrikes that hit media institutions in the capital, Sanaa, and the northern city of…
Iraq Launches First National Solar Power Plant in Holy Karbala
September 15, 2025
Iraq Launches First National Solar Power Plant in Holy Karbala
Iraq Launches First National Solar Power Plant in Holy Karbala …………. Iraq has inaugurated the first phase of the Karbala solar power plant, delivering 75 megawatts of electricity, with full capacity expected to reach 300 megawatts. The project marks the…
Pakistan Floods Devastate Crops, Leaving Thousands of Farmers Struggling
September 15, 2025
Pakistan Floods Devastate Crops, Leaving Thousands of Farmers Struggling
Pakistan Floods Devastate Crops, Leaving Thousands of Farmers Struggling …………. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered destructive floods across large parts of Pakistan, inundating farmland and wiping out crops, leaving thousands of rural families without homes or livelihoods. Vast stretches of…
Lebanon Begins Disarmament in Palestinian Camps Amid Mixed Reactions
September 15, 2025
Lebanon Begins Disarmament in Palestinian Camps Amid Mixed Reactions
Palestinian factions have started handing over weapons from refugee camps in Lebanon, as part of a government-led initiative to dismantle the presence of armed non-state actors, according to Arab News. Abdel Hadi Al-Asadi of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) confirmed…
Iraq’s Yazidis Rediscover Lost History Through 1930s Photos Found in Museum Archive
September 14, 2025
Iraq’s Yazidis Rediscover Lost History Through 1930s Photos Found in Museum Archive
Iraq’s Yazidis Rediscover Lost History Through 1930s Photos Found in Museum Archive —————————— A collection of nearly 300 photographs of Iraq’s Yazidi community, taken by University of Pennsylvania archaeologists in the 1930s, has been rediscovered, helping to revive the cultural…