The Taliban rejected Saturday a newspaper report claiming their fighters had received rewards from Moscow's spies to kill US troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times reported Friday that bounties offered by a notorious arm of Russia's military intelligence service gave incentives to...

 Dozens of independent UN experts voiced alarm Friday over the repression of fundamental freedoms in China, demanding urgent action from the UN Human Rights Council. Around 50 special rapporteurs and other experts denounced the "repression of protest and democracy advocacy" in Hong...

Many figures involved in the means established by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime to brutally suppress the civil war that started in March 2011 have been implicated as war criminals. War crimes committed by the Assad regime, including the use of chemical weapons, rape, torture, the...

The Caesar Civilian Protection Act comes into force this Wednesday 17 June, bringing an outlook for Bashar al-Assad's regime that hasn't appeared so bleak since the rapid rebel gains of 2015.  The Caesar Act was passed by the US Senate in 2019, with the stated goal of more targeted and...