Bangladesh factories making clothes for Western brands have sacked hundreds of workers after more than a week of strikes and clashes over wages, police and trade unions said Wednesday. The country's $30-billion clothing industry is the world's second-largest after China. Its some four...

A total of 6,964 civilians were killed in Syria in 2018, a rights group said. In a report released on Jan. 12, the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Bashar al-Assad regime forces were responsible for 4,162 of these civilian deaths, including 713 children and 562...

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured when Boko Haram militants attacked a military base in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno on Monday, local media reported on Tuesday. According to a report by Daily Trust, the militant group also set fire to civilian houses....

At least five people were reportedly killed in Zimbabwe on Monday as thousands protested against high fuel prices, a local human rights group said Tuesday. “The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) reports that over 26 people reported being shot by the police, of which...