Category: Human rights
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Syria war monitor says four fighters dead in Israeli attack on Palmyra
State news agency says the attack targeted residential buildings and the industrial area of the city Published: Wed 20 Nov 2024, 5:08 PM Tourists visit Roman ruins in Palmyra, Syria, on May 11, 2023. — AP File A war monitor said Israeli strikes on central Syria’s Palmyra on Wednesday killed four pro-Iran fighters, while Syrian…
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Survival stories from Palestinian and Lebanese women bearing the brunt of Israel’s wars of terror
War is brutal for all innocent civilians, but it is especially brutal for women. Today, the Arab region is being torn apart — a genocide in Gaza now more than one year in the making, settler violence in the West Bank, and, in the last two months, a renewed Israeli occupation of Lebanon. In every…
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UN accused of downplaying Hamas terrorists’ use of Gaza hospitals as new report ignores important details
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Pakistan’s military to launch new offensive against separatist militants
ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Pakistan plans a new military offensive against separatist insurgents in southwestern Balochistan province, home to key Chinese Belt and Road projects, but it was not immediately clear if the plan would be a joint effort with the giant neighbour. Following a string of deadly attacks that targeted its citizens in…
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Canada Activist Raises Alarm At Alleged Iran Plots To Kill Dissidents Abroad
By AFP – Agence France Presse November 19, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler (L) said he was targeted by an alleged Iranian plot Brendan Smialowski Text size Tehran is escalating attacks on dissidents and rights defenders abroad, Canada’s former justice minister Irwin Cotler told local media Tuesday, after revealing…
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A Dissident’s Final Act of Protest Stuns Iran
Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT A Dissident’s Final Act of Protest Stuns Iran Repeatedly imprisoned in his country, Kianoosh Sanjari refused to be silenced by the government. But in the end, despairing of change, he silenced himself. Kianoosh Sanjari speaking at an Amnesty International concert in New York in 2014.Credit…Theo Wargo/Getty Images for CBGB Nov. 19, 2024Updated…
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Day 1,000 Of Putin’s “Three-Day” War In Ukraine
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – OCTOBER 17: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (R) welcomes Ukraine’s President … [+] Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrive for a joint press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images As Kyiv gets a green light to…
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Middle East in the New Trump Era: Russia’s Foreign Policy Dilemmas
The spectacular comeback of Donald Trump to the White House will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the US overall international positioning, as well as on specific dimensions of the US approaches to various regions of the world. Of course, the US foreign policy has a bipartisan nature, it is devised and managed not only…
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Juan Cole
Critique of US Policy in Iraq Bush Administration policies in Iraq have largely been a failure. It has created a failed state in that country, which is in flames and seething with new religious and ethnic nationalist passions of a sort never before seen on this scale in modern Iraqi history. The severe instability in…
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Iran Says No Charges Issued Against Woman Student’s Public Act Of Stripping
Tehran: Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped off to her underwear at a university in Tehran. “Considering that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she was ill, she was handed over to her family… and no judicial case has been filed…
