With 95 percent of the votes from 10 of Iraq's 18 provinces tallied — more than half of the total votes Shiite militia leader Hadi al-Amiri's bloc, which is backed by Iran, is currently in second place. The number of voters was significantly lower than in previous elections. The US labeled him a "terrorist" and issued an arrest warrant for the cleric, who then fled to Iran to

“With Magufuli’s passing, the urgent need for justice for his many victims of abuse is clearer than ever

regional governments] embezzled money in the Covid-19 crisis, that the death toll in Sarajevo is worse than

photographer revealed an unwieldy authoritarianism that in many ways is both more puritanical and more lawless than Hifter’s militia, the Libyan Arab Armed Forces, trained at a military academy in eastern Libya. The center of Benghazi is little different today than it was in 2017, when Mr. Hifter required a visiting journalist to watch a video of more than a dozen gruesome beheadings.

restaurants, cafes, and many other public placed remain closed and meetings or mass gatherings of more than

Dubbed the Hindu Rastra Swabhiman Jagaran Abhiyan, which loosely translates as the Campaign for Dignity

Tombstones of Afghan child soldiers buried in Iran. © 2017 Private Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Since 2013, Iran has supported and trained thousands of Afghans, at least some of them undocumented immigrants There is little transparency in Iran’s recruitment of soldiers to fight in Syria, including whether it While Iran officially claims that all Afghans living in Iran who join the Fatemiyoun division are volunteers Authorities have attempted to extend rights to Afghan children living in Iran.

Association, which had been expecting a statement from the military and were preparing to negotiate a transition “Our request for a civilian transitional government has been ignored.” Two years later, he joined an Arab alliance fighting on one side of Yemen’s war, led by Iran’s archenemy But on the whole his forces reacted with relative restraint, killing dozens rather than hundreds of protesters

The genocide will be supported by Russia and Iran. Turkey and Iran have sizable Kurdish minority populations, which they consider threats to ethnic and

switched sides to force the president out of power on 11 April and was named vice-president of Sudan's Transitional Mohamed Bin Salman earlier in May, promising to support the country against "all threats and attacks from Iran

The death toll of Afghans in the past decades’ conflicts is more than 47,000.

correctly refer to the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, rather than