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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria destroyed or damaged at least 140 private buildings housing 147 families in January and February 2022 while trying to capture fleeing detainees and Islamic State (ISIS) fighters who attacked a nearby prison, Human Rights Watch said today...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has held high-level talks in Tehran after a trilateral meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on fighting in the Caucasus region. Pashinyan was officially received by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday morning, and the two held talks at the...

Fifty United Nations member countries today issued a joint statement that condemned the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. It was the largest group of states to publicly denounce Beijing’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, which the UN’s human rights...

Myanmar’s junta has officially banned the online news outlet The Irrawaddy and charged the outlet’s registered publisher for violating national security laws, state media reported over the weekend, following months of legal harassment. The ban is the latest on at least 20 media groups—news agencies...

RP Singh, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—one of India’s major political parties—has written to India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah calling for the establishment of a “truth commission” to expose the conspiracy behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and take cognizance...

Latin America leaders on Sunday congratulated Brazil's Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva after he won a third term as president of the largest country in South America, consolidating the region's "pink tide" of elected leftist leaders. His victory over far-right president Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil...

Thousands have protested in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma, denouncing Rwanda’s alleged support of M23 rebels, as DRC recalled its interim acting ambassador from Rwanda in a further souring of relations. A mostly Congolese Tutsi group, the M23 resumed fighting in...

On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special...

In a resolution passed after a meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday afternoon, the Organization of American States (OAS) permanent council expressed “solidarity and support” for Peru’s government, “as well as for [the] preservation of the democratic political institutional process." The left-wing...

Seoul's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong has said, “There are a lot of speculative articles (over the solution to the wartime forced labor issue) but the governments have not made a decision, nor set a deadline (for resolution),” after a trilateral meeting with his American and Japanese...