ISIL claims Kabul attack on Chinese restaurant
Group links attack to China’s ‘crimes’ against Uighurs. Beijing urges Taliban government to protect its nationals. Workers clean up the scene, and Taliban police secure the area on January 20, 2026, after an explosion a day earlier at a Chinese restaurant, right, killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national, in Kabul, Afghanistan [Siddiqullah Alizai/AP] ISIL (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that
Al Jazeera
Jan 20
Togo’s Gnassingbé leads Great Lakes peace mediation
Dec. 5, 2025 Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé has intensified diplomatic efforts across the Great Lakes region. Since his appointment as Mediator by the African Union (AU) in April 2025, Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé has intensified diplomatic efforts across the Great Lakes region, successfully promoting a path toward lasting peace between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. Gnassingbé’s comprehensive mediation strategy involved imm
APA News
Dec 6, 2025
Femicide warning: Afghanistan
By Michał Jagielski Women, teachers and students demonstrate inside a private school to demand their rights and equal education for women and girls, during a gathering for National Teachers Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz The nationwide internet shutdown in Afghanistan on Sept. 29, 2025 was another instance of the Taliban’s unrelenting campaign against the Afghan people, especially women. Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021,
Genocide Watch
Nov 10, 2025
New Lines Report: Taliban Genocide Against Afghan Hazaras
Women protest the loss of innocent lives of Hazara Muslims. Source: Yahoo Images A newly released investigative legal and archival...
New Lines Institute
Sep 4, 2025
Kyrgyzstan: NGOs Urge Veto of Laws Threatening Human Rights
By International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov. Photo Credit: Latvian Foreign Ministry...
Eurasia Review
Jul 27, 2025
Kazakhstan Bans Face Coverings in Public Places
Reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva; writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Mark Heinrich Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...
Reuters
Jul 27, 2025
Karakalpakstan Victims Await Justice Three Years On
Investigate, Hold Perpetrators Accountable for Rights Abuses By Mihra Rittmann Security forces set up checkpoints after protests over...
Human Rights Watch
Jul 27, 2025
Tajikistan: Ismaili Prisoner Dies After Denied Medical Care
By Felix Corley Muzaffar Davlatmirov, Dushanbe, 2020 Credit: Private Seriously ill prisoner of conscience Muzaffar Davlatmirov, a leading...
Eurasia Review
Jul 27, 2025
Taliban removing all freedom from women
Three years after America’s withdrawal, the situation is grim Last month the Taliban published a new consolidated code of religious laws....
The Economist
Sep 27, 2024
Police in Pakistan kill blasphemy suspect
Killing comes a week after an officer fatally wounded another suspect held on accusations of blasphemy Local police chief Niaz Khoso said...
The Guardian
Sep 27, 2024
Taliban ‘Deliberately Deprived’ 1.4 Million Girls Of Schooling: UN
As Afghanistan’s rulers mark three years in power, the future of an entire generation of girls is ‘in jeopardy’, UN says. Afghanistan’s...
Genocide Watch
Aug 27, 2024
Human Rights Watch: China is renaming Uyghur towns
Two women pass through a secure entrance to a bazaar in Xinjiang in 2019. Life for Uyghur Muslims in the region is strictly controlled,...
Human Rights Watch
Jul 21, 2024
