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Some 470,000 Syrians return home: Çavuşoğlu

Nearly 470,000 Syrian have returned to their countries and more of them will go back when the conditions become ripe for their return, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. “Turkey cannot receive any more refugees as it does not have additional capacity to do so. We have deals...

In Peru, rumors feed vaccine reluctance among Indigenous

Maribel Vilca didn't even bother to go to the community meeting giving information to her Indigenous community about COVID-19 vaccines. “What happens if I die with the vaccine? I have small children,“ she said, expressing mistrust of the government health services after bad experiences...

A rebel, a bureaucrat: The women who stayed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two women from different walks of life — one a rebel, the other a bureaucrat — face an unknown future in Afghanistan. One decided to work with the Taliban, the other is determined to fight them. Both vow they will never leave their homeland. Karima Mayar...

Hamas 'guardian' law keeps Gaza woman from studying abroad

Afaf al-Najar had found a way out of Gaza. The 19-year-old won a scholarship to study communications in Turkey, secured all the necessary travel documents and even paid $500 to skip the long lines at the Rafah crossing with Egypt. But when she arrived at the border on Sept. 21 she was...