Due to fears of reprisal and violence, there have been no street protests in Myanmar against the military’s power grab over the past three days. However, people seem to have chosen civil disobedience as the way to express their opposition to Monday’s coup against a civilian...

 Married at the age of 12, rejected at 16, and then disfigured in an acid attack, Al-Anoud Hussain Sheryan's fate is a shocking illustration of abuse in a society beset by war and poverty. Now aged 19, the Yemeni woman agreed to relate her ordeal at the hands of her abusive husband --...

The arrival and rollout of vaccines in war ravaged Syria may initially cover only 3% of the population in the first phase, a World Health Organization official said Tuesday. Akjemal Magtymova, said Syria is eligible to receive the vaccine for free through the global COVAX effort, aimed...

Prominent Palestinian academic and political activist Abdel Sattar Qassem died late on Monday aged 72 of Covid-19, his family said. Qassem, a professor of political science at Al-Najah University in Nablus, was well known for his activism against the Israeli military occupation in the...