Humanitarian groups on Wednesday demanded access to civilians on the brink of famine in Yemen, describing the two-year civil war in the Arab world’s poorest state as an “open-air massacre”. Tags: Yemen, Famine, Civilians, Blockade, [ More … ]
– The lawmaker’s claim could not be verified by independent sources – Daesh militants have massacred 200 civilians in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi lawmaker has claimed, according to Anadolu Agency. MP Intisar [ More … ]
– Foreign Ministry source says foreign outlets’ claims that civilians were killed in an operation are only allegations – Turkey on Monday denied foreign media reports that three civilians were killed during a security operation in northern [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named six new provincial governors on Wednesday, in a series of appointments that extended the influence of the military and security forces, reported Reuters. Five of the six new governors held senior [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court jailed Thursday 17 civilians for allegedly committing violence, according to a local human rights activist, reported Anadolu Agency. The court slapped ten defendants with a life sentence each in absentia for [ More … ]
Gunmen shot dead an informer and a soldier and injured five other people, including two civilians, in an attack at a police checkpoint in the province of Menoufia north of Cairo, the director of the [ More … ]
Almost 18,000 Syrians have died in government jails since 2011, with authorities using torture, beatings, electric shocks and rape against prisoners on a “massive scale,” a rights group has said. The UK-based Amnesty International said on [ More … ]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called, on Saturday, for conducting a full investigation into the killing of hundreds of civilians at the hands of the Egyptian police and army forces during the dispersal of Rabaa [ More … ]
– UN refugee agency says 3,000 people in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province have been abducted by notorious terrorist group – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday claimed that the ISIS (Daesh) [ More … ]
By: Hilal Kaplan* When the U.S.’s pretense of weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq was exposed, it changed it to the argument of exporting democracy. Today, by looking at the current situation in Iraq, [ More … ]
Turkey’s western allies are accused of reluctance towards fighting against PKK terrorist group Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister on Thursday criticized the country’s western allies of being reluctant to show support in the fight against the [ More … ]
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