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The Taliban’s religious police have threatened to shoot women NGO workers in a northwestern province of Afghanistan if they do not wear the all-covering burqa, two staff members told AFP.The rights of Afghans — particularly women and girls — have…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen that left at least 70 dead at a prison and disrupted telecommunications.Guterres criticized Friday’s attack on the prison in Houthi territory in Saada and the strike…

Dozens of people have been killed in an air raid on a prison in northern Yemen, a Houthi official and medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) have said, after a night of deadly bombing underlined a…

The Baghdad Operations Command in Iraq announced the arrest of seven wanted terrorists according to various legal articles and the seizure of weapons and narcotics, while noting that among the arrested was one of the perpetrators of the Speicher crime.The…

The American organization ACLED confirmed that the Bahraini regime considers the Shia religious Ashura season a political threat and is repressing its participants.A report by the organization, which is funded by the US State Department, stated that the Bahraini regime…

Five civilians, including a child, were killed in an air strike by the Saudi coalition on the HaribBayhan district, southeast of the Yemeni governorate of Ma’rib.The official “Saba” news agency in Sana’a stated that “the planes of the Saudi coalition…

Three people were shot dead by the Taliban terrorist movement, during a demonstration in the city of Khost, eastern Afghanistan, denouncing the spread of unemployment.An eyewitness from Khost told Sputnik, “At least three people were killed and three others were…

Several dozen members of the UK parliament have called on their government to impose ‘Magnitsky’ style sanctions on Bahrain officials accused of torture and mistreatment of political prisoners, with interior minister Rashid al-Khalifa coming in for particular criticism.The concerns were…

In a disturbing and illegal escalation, Taliban terrorist elements suppressed a women’s demonstration in Kabul, relying on hacking activities’ communications and practicing moral and physical intimidation, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.“An armed Taliban terrorist group was present…

The number of victims of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, yesterday evening rose to 25, including a martyr and a wounded person, and two citizens were pulled out from under the rubble.Sources in Sanaa reported…