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Mullah regime abuses families of football players

Monday 05-12-2022 01:28 PM

The mullah regime in Iran still relies on its security arm, represented by the Revolutionary Guards, to implement its domestic and foreign agenda, which is why Tehran exerted pressure on the ...

‘Let the People Be Victorious’: Nucleus of a political party supporting Tunisian president

Monday 05-12-2022 01:05 PM

Two weeks before the legislative elections scheduled for Tunisia on December 17, founding members of the “Let the People Be Victorious” initiative supporting President Kais Saied announced the ...

Yemen's Houthis committing flagrant violations in al-Jawf

Monday 05-12-2022 12:44 PM

The Yemeni province of al-Jawf has been suffering from repression at the hands of the Houthi group for a while now. The group commits untold violations against people in the province, ...

Pakistani Taliban raising money through extortion

Monday 05-12-2022 12:31 PM

The branch of the Taliban movement in Pakistan depends on financial extortion to raise money. The branch imposes royalties on people living in areas close to the shared border between ...

Russia Presses Assault in Eastern Ukraine in a Bid to Encircle Kyiv Forces

Sunday 04-12-2022 05:18 PM

Russia pressed its assault against eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the U.K.’s Defense Ministry said Saturday, while Ukraine’s general staff said it was holding off Russian attacks in the region ...

UK refuses to bring stricken Isis bride home

Sunday 04-12-2022 05:01 PM

A leading neurologist has accused the Foreign Office of “barbaric behaviour” for failing to evacuate a dangerously ill woman from a detention camp in northeast Syria, where he says she will die ...

He Returned a Dazed Soldier to the Russians. Ukraine Calls It Treason.

Sunday 04-12-2022 03:46 PM

On the night of March 15, Illia Karamalikov received an unexpected phone call. As a nightclub owner and member of Kherson’s city council, he had been running a volunteer neighborhood watch in this ...

Iran reviewing mandatory headscarf law amid ongoing protests

Sunday 04-12-2022 03:11 PM

Iranian authorities said they would review a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as the country struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code. ...

Israeli aircraft hit Gaza after rocket fire

Sunday 04-12-2022 02:14 PM

Israeli aircraft struck several military sites in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, hours after Palestinian militants fired a missile into southern Israel in a move apparently linked to rising tension in ...

Iran executed 4 people it says spied for Israel

Sunday 04-12-2022 01:56 PM

Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said. Three others received lengthy prison sentences. IRNA ...

Why a distracted Russia points to an unstable future for Syria

Sunday 04-12-2022 01:27 PM

The Islamic State (IS) group announced this week that its leader had been killed in Syria, while the US-backed group that destroyed its so-called caliphate in the country declared it was halting all ...

We’re ready for Ukraine peace talks, Kremlin claims

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:26 PM

The Kremlin has claimed it is ready for peace talks with the US over the war in Ukraine but rejected western terms for opening the negotiations. It comes a day after President Biden appeared to ...

Joy as Afghan lives are rebuilt from the rubble

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:17 PM

The night the Taliban attacked Lokah Mazar, Ghulam Sarwat was at home in his mud-built house below a distinctive rocky crag jutting up from the centre of the village. The Taliban’s target was a ...

Women in conservative region of Iran join Mahsa Amini protests

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:08 PM

Black-clad women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province have joined nationwide protests on Friday sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, in what a rights group called a rare move in the staunchly ...

Iranian state media: Construction begins on nuclear plant

Saturday 03-12-2022 06:56 PM

Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country’s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the U.S. over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington ...