Headlines- Early on Sunday morning local time, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
- US president Trump said he believes Iran is to blame for the attack on the school of Iranian girls.
- As the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies, dozens more people have died in Lebanon as a result with major Israeli air and ground operations.
- On Saturday, Trump visited an air base in Delaware for honorable transfer of six US service members who had been killed in the fighting.
- After a week of strikes, Israel and the United States had almost complete control of the skies over Tehran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared on Saturday that Israel would continue its fight with Iran "with all our force."
Year: 2020
‘She Spoke Out For Justice Without...
The authors’ group Independent Chinese PEN Center awarded Geng, who has been bullied and mistreated by fellow prisoners in a police-run detention center, its Lin Zhao Memorial Award, commemorating a Mao-era dissident who was executed after continuing to write in prison using her own blood as ink
Afghanistan: Journalist from Enekaas TV, Representative...
Journalist Malalai Maiwand , 30, and her driver, Taher Khan , were killed on Thursday, December 10 by two gunmen in Jalalabad, in the east of the country. The young woman died instantly. His driver succumbed to his injuries in hospital
Turkey Economy Reset
Turkish exporters are being shut out of Middle Eastern markets due to growing pushback by Saudi Arabia and Egypt in response to what some describe as Turkey’s aggressive foreign policy
China Puts Rights Lawyers, Families Under...
Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed a number of prominent rights lawyers and their families under house arrest on Human Rights Day, RFA has learned
‘A New Beginning’: Relief, Hope as...
British health officials are warning that people with a “significant history” of allergic reactions should not receive the new coronavirus vaccine that was rolled out in a mass vaccination program Tuesday,
Appeal to the Pakistan Prime Minister:...
According to CSJ, a total of 162 cases of Hindu and Christian women were kidnapped, converted and forcibly married were officially recorded from 2013 to 2020 in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh alone
‘Who Killed Those People?’ Ethiopian Children...
Refugees fleeing the fighting in Ethiopia say they don’t know the fate of their families left behind as they arrive at remote camps in Sudan
Vietnam’s Crackdown on Freedom of Expression...
According to Amnesty International, as of May, 2019 Vietnam had in its custody 118 prisoners of conscience. Some have since been released after serving their sentences, but many more have been arrested and detained on similar charges
Rohingya Relocation Bhasan Char Island
For the last three years, most of the 700,000 Rohingyas who fled violence in Myanmar have been living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar
Zimbabwe Mining Safety Concern
High unemployment and poverty are pushing Zimbabwe’s laborers into mining for gold in disused and dangerous mine shafts that too often turn into death traps