Eighteen year old Bahara (name has been changed to protect her identity) was imprisoned in Afghanistan seven months ago after being forced to take a virginity test when she attempted to report her rape. Afghanistan outlawed the humiliating and degrading test back in 2016, however women across the country are continuously subjected to it and even jailed for so called… Read more »
New Delhi (CNN)Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid has approved a controversial new digital security law that rights groups fear could be used to further erode press freedoms and dissenting voices online. The Digital Security Act, which was given presidential assent Monday, combines the colonial-era Official Secrets Act with new measures empowering police to make arrests without a warrant. Amnesty International described… Read more »
he fact that US forces are still in Afghanistan after 17 years of fighting and the incumbent administration has not found any workable solutions to the Afghan conundrum is not surprising when you consider the country’s history. The British and Czarist empires and later the Soviet Union also failed to achieve their desired objectives in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, a country with… Read more »
This weekend marks the 17th anniversary of the US coalition’s invasion of Afghanistan, triggering a war that has lasted four times as long as the first world war. Some 3,546 Nato soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, 456 of whom were British, while a conservative estimate suggests 217,000 Afghans have died as a direct result of the fighting. During each of the… Read more »
Seven months ago, 18-year-old Bahara* was imprisoned for failing a test that she should never have had to undergo. Bahara had run away from home to meet a man she had been in a relationship with. They had never met, but were in contact through calls and messages. That night, when they met for the first time, he raped her…. Read more »
This past Saturday, September 22nd, several gunmen killed nearly 25 people and wounded 60 others at a military parade in Iran. The attack occurred in Ahvaz, a refractory province in Iran in which the majority of the country’s Arab minority resides. The parade was meant to mark the anniversary of the war with Iraq which took place from 1980 through 1988,… Read more »
Gunmen killed at least 25 people and wounded 60 on Saturday in an attack on a military parade in a restive Iranian province that is home to most of the country’s Arab minority, state media said. The Islamic Republic News Agency reported the casualty figures at the parade in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, and added that, with many of the wounded in… Read more »
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Soldiers in dress uniform lay prone in the street. Others, apparently heavily armed, faced the assailants, then threw themselves to the ground without firing back. Some just ran for their lives. Captured on video and widely shared on social media, the attack over the weekend on an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps parade in Iran was a humiliating… Read more »
Tehran, Iran – This time last year, to buy one American dollar cost you 38,000 Iranian riyals. When President Hassan Rouhani‘s plane hit the tarmac in New York City on Sunday night, that number stood at a whopping 150,000. The drastic difference between those two figures represents the impact of US President Donald Trump‘s policies towards Iran. While economic mismanagement by Iranian leaders has… Read more »
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the United Nations on Thursday that his intelligence agents had discovered a “secret atomic warehouse” in downtown Tehran, escalating a growing confrontation with Iran and setting up a direct challenge to its government to open the facility to inspectors and prove it is not in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal. Mr. Netanyahu’s… Read more »