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Amnesty International says detained political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in Saudi Arabia face sexual harassment, torture and other forms of ill-treatment during interrogation, as a crackdown led by the authorities against human rights defenders and intellectuals continues unabated in the…

A United Nations draft resolution has called for an immediate truce in Hudaydah, Yemen’s strategic port and its only conduit to the outside world, setting a two-week deadline for removing all barriers to humanitarian aid for the impoverished state.  …

A young Shia activist in Saudi Arabia, who was critically wounded by regime force during a raid on the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, has succumbed to his injuries as a crackdown against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals…

The fighters of the Red Unit of Taliban and several other militants suffered casualties during the operations and airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.   The fighters of the Red Unit of Taliban and several other militants suffered casualties…

Courts in Bahrain have handed down prison sentences to more than a dozen Shia protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Gulf kingdom.…

Nearly a dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed when Iraqi Air Force fighter jets carried out separate airstrikes against militant hideouts in the country’s north-central province of Salahuddin.   Nearly a dozen members of the…

The Afghan security forces have seized dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammo during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.     The Afghan security forces have seized dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of…

Syrian government forces have managed to wrest control over the last holdout of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s south, a UK-based monitoring group says.     Syrian government forces have managed to wrest control over the last…

More than two dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed as Iraqi air forces and government troops launched separate counter-terrorism operations across the crisis-hit Arab country to flush out the last remnants of the extremist outfit.…

The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted raids on five compounds of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-k) in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.     The Special Forces of…