The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a...
The United Nations human rights experts said on Friday that 50 prisoners in Iraq await possible execution on Monday, following conviction in terrorism-related charges in unfair trials.
The UN experts suggested Baghdad halt its...
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, recently held an online meeting with HRDs from Balochistan. The session focused on the severe challenges Baloch HRDs face in their advocacy for the rights of...
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts of the world, users reported on Monday evening.
All three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure.
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Reporters sans frontières (alias Reporters Without Borders or RSF) released a statement on July 8 where it warned the Pakistani government to not threaten the journalists living abroad. Citing a ‘leaked Pakistani government internal memo’, the Paris-based...
A Norwegian national, who was forcibly disappeared from Balochistan, has returned home 12 years after his disappearance. Ehsan Arjemandi was taken away by personnel of Pakistani forces in August 2009 from zero-point in Lasbela and was kept...
President Trump said he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, a reversal of the Obama administration decision that would have allowed them to serve, he announced on social media on Wednesday.
Citing the need...
United States Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo has warned Iran of "direct action" for any attacks on Washington in Iraq, even those using proxy forces, against US interests.
In an interview to CNN, Pompeo said, "We have told the...
Millions of Americans on November 3rd left their homes early in the morning to elect the 46th president of the United States of America in what many experts have entitled the “most important election in history.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged warnings with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, over Taiwan in a telephonic conversation on Thursday that lasted for over two hours. Biden told Xi that the US opposed any unilateral actions to...
