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A deportation center in Riyadh is holding hundreds of mostly Ethiopian migrant workers in conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Detainees alleged to Human Rights Watch that they are held in extremely overcrowded…

At least 13 Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban militants attacked two checkpoints overnight in the north of the country, officials said Wednesday.The militants stormed and briefly held the checkpoints on the outskirts of Pule Khumri, capital of northern Baghlan…

Bahrain’s King Hamad issued a royal decree, pardoning 169 prisoners, who have served part of their jail terms for various reasons, without including prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.The pardon was announced on the occasion of Bahrain’s National Day commemorating…

UAE’s President has instructed the prayers for rain to be performed this Friday, it was announced.The prayers for rain, known in Arabic as Salaat Al Istisqaa, will be carried out at mosques and prayer sites across the nation on December…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Sunday warned that 5 million Yemenis “will likely be living just one step away from famine in the upcoming year.”The UN organization said in a brief statement posted on its official Twitter…

An Egyptian young man has a unique skill that he learned from his father when he was little.Hussain can draw the letters of the Noble Quran as if it is a painting.The 20-year-old Mahmoud Hussain was born in Qana province…

Azerbaijan and Armenia started the process of exchanging prisoners Monday, a move stipulated in the peace deal between the two ex-Soviet nations that ended recent fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.Azerbaijani authorities said an all-for-all exchange of prisoners and…

The deputy governor of Kabul was killed in a blast on Tuesday morning in the Afghan capital, after a bomb attached to his armored vehicle by a magnet was detonated.Mahbubullah Muhibbi is the latest – and one of the highest-profile…

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, announced the killing of 42 ISIS terrorists, south of Mosul.In a press statement, Rasoul said, “The heroic CTS forces raided the so-called “Tigris Sector” in which…

The Lebanese scholarly community announced its condemnation of the actions of the Saudi regime in the south of the country.“We deplore what the security forces of the Saudi regime did to demolish the Imam Hussein mosque, peace be upon him,…