A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children. The Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the Saudi-led coalition's air strikes in...
A total of 45 Afghan troops have disappeared from training camps in the U.S. in less than two years, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. “Eight Afghan students training at U.S. facilities were reported Absent Without Leave (AWOL) in September,” Adam Stump, a Defense Department spokesman told...
By Andrew Mitchell (The Independent)- As we survey the international catastrophe that is Syria today and reflect on the uncomfortable analogy between the UN’s failure and humiliation at the hands of Russia and the defeat of the League of Nations in the 1930s at the hands of Germany and...
The UN's Syria envoy Thursday warned east Aleppo faces total destruction, as government forces made their biggest gains in years against rebels inside the opposition-held part of the battleground city. Staffan de Mistura said eastern Aleppo could be "totally destroyed" by year's end, and...
