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Malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year, a spokesman for the World Food Program said Thursday. The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after…

More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, Reuters reported. Forty-one bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, some burned beyond…

A human rights watchdog called on Morocco on Friday not to extradite a Shi’ite Muslim to his homeland of Saudi Arabia, citing fears he could face torture and an unfair trial there. Hassan Al Rabea, who has been in Morocco…

The Shia Hazara community continued its sit-in against the target killing of its members on second day in DI Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Thursday, the Tribunal reported. The participants in the sit-in spent the night on road despite…

Iraq has sentenced 14 people to death by hanging for their alleged role in the Daesh massacre of hundreds of army cadets in 2014, according to judicial officials. The Al-Rusafa Criminal Court in the capital Baghdad “issued death sentences against…

Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 70 per cent of the population now in need of humanitarian…

The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General says she opposes cutting aid to Afghanistan as a response to the Taliban’s policies towards women and girls. Amina Mohammed, the UN deputy chief, and Sima Bahous the head of UN Women, briefed senior EU…

Today, Friday, the Samarra Operations Command confirmed that the number of pilgrims to Imam Al-Hadi, Peace be upon him, has reached more than one million. Pilgrims from all over the Iraqi provinces and from foreign and neighboring countries have arrived…

Pakistan has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of terrorism may currently be down, in the past the nation has witnessed grotesque massacres of innocent people carried out by sectarian death squads,…

The United Nations on Wednesday (Jan 24) inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list. The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in…