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A Syrian child receives medical treatment after the Assad regime carried out a poisonous gas attack in Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria on 7 March 2018 [Dia Al Din Samout/Anadolu Agency] November 22, 2018 at 10:32 am A new report issued by the Syrian Human Rights Network on World Children’s Day has revealed that 28,226 children have been killed in Syria by various parties since the war began in 2011. Commenting on the statistics, the network insisted that, “There can be no stability in Syria and the region without the stability of its children.” The organisation has documented as many as 22,444 children who have been killed by Syrian regime forces since March 2011. This figure includes 196 who were killed by chemical weapons and 394 who were killed by cluster bombs, either directly or after picking up unexploded bomblets. The report has also revealed that 301 children have died due to a lack of food and medicine in many besieged areas. At least 3,155 children are still

Expand Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck three apartment buildings in Faj Attan, a densely populated neighborhood in Sanaa, on August 25, 2017. Two of the buildings were completely destroyed and the third suffered extensive damage. © 2017 Mohammed al-Mekhlafi (Paris) – President Emmanuel Macron of  France  should raise serious concerns with Abu Dhabi’s crown prince regarding laws-of-war violations in  Yemen , Human Rights Watch said today. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan of the  United Arab Emirates  (UAE) will visit Paris on November 21, 2018. The UAE plays a prominent role in the  Saudi -led coalition’s military operations in Yemen. Since March 2015, the coalition has indiscriminately bombed homes, markets, and schools, impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid and used widely banned cluster munitions. Human Rights Watch has documented nearly 90 apparently unlawful coalition attacks, some of them likely war crimes. The UAE and UAE-led proxy forces have arbitrar

WASHINGTON — The gruesome killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside a Saudi diplomatic installation in Turkey last month has cast a world spotlight on rights abuses by the conservative desert kingdom. But the outcry over President Donald Trump’s seeming indifference — his declaration Tuesday that he was, in essence, taking the word of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over that of American intelligence agencies, which say the kingdom’s young de facto ruler almost certainly authorized Khashoggi’s assassination — points up another uncomfortable phenomenon: Although Western governments are often critical of the Saudi flouting of human rights standards, most are nonetheless willing to continue doing business with its oil-rich absolute monarchy. It’s not that other abuses go undocumented. On the same day that Trump explicitly framed his response to the murder dismemberment of Khashoggi in terms of American financial interests, two international watchdog groups — Human

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex at the Hubb Community Kitchen at Al Manaar mosque. It said it had been on the record as 'rejecting and condemning extremism and terrorism' - Getty Images Europe A community kitchen  supported by the Duchess of Sussex is housed inside a mosque linked by experts to individuals connected to “terrorist acts” and run by an imam who says girls who listen to music risk becoming strippers. Meghan visited the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre on Wednesday after championing a cookbook to raise funds for the “Hubb Community Kitchen” project there to help victims of the fire at nearby Grenfell Tower. In February it emerged the 37-year-old royal had  made secret visits  to the mosque in Westbourne Grove, which has also hosted Princes William and Harry, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn in recent months. An investigation by the  Henry Jackson Society  (HJS), the anti-extremism think tank, has linked the mosque, opened by Prince Charles in 2001,

Slogans like "We want justice" and "Release all  Baloch  Missing Persons" echoed across  Balochistan  as a large number of women and children joined massive rallies against enforced disappearances in the Pakistani province on Monday. In Dera Ghazi Khan, the protesters demanded the immediate release of hundreds of  Baloch  political activists, students and other intellectuals who had been illegally abducted by  secret services  and the  Army  in the past few months. The family members of  Baloch  missing persons have been protesting for the past few months, but their voice is unheard by  Islamabad.  They demand enforced disappearances should be criminalised. Among many women who have joined the protest for the safe release of their husband is Zarina Baloch, wife of  Shabir Baloch.  Zarina's husband was abducted on 14 October 2016 and she has never heard of him again. She has traveled from Awaran to set up a protest camp in capital  Quetta. There are man

Peshawar:  At least 32 people, including three Pakistani-Sikhs, were killed and more than 40 others were injured on Friday when a suicide bomber triggered  a powerful bomb blast at a busy market outside a religious seminary  in the country's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. According to the initial investigation, an improvised explosive device was planted in a bike that was used for transporting vegetables to the popular Friday Market (Juma Bazar) near an  imambargah , a Shia religious place, in Orakzai tribal district's Kalaya area, bordering Afghanistan. Representational image. Reuters "This is a Friday bazaar, where hundreds of people had gathered for groceries," Deputy Commissioner Khalid Iqbal said. "The ground is then used for Friday prayers as well," he added. At least 32 people were killed while more than 40 others injured,  Dawn  news quoted district administration officials as saying. "Three Sikh traders and thre

He was the man who came several times to India to conduct a reconnaissance of the targets that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists were supposed to hit. Not once was this man on the radar of the Indian Intelligence agencies. He came to Mumbai befriended high profile personalities, went about his job without being suspected or detected even once. What the US never told us: A source in the Intelligence Bureau once told this correspondent, that he had a strong and lurking suspicion that the United States was aware of what Headley was upto. They never told us anything, for reasons best to known to them, the officer also said. He was their agent in Afghanistan and later fell out of favour after he turned rogue, the officer also informed. The US has always been secretive about David Headley. He made several trips to India on the pretext of opening an immigration office. He changed his name from Daood Gilani to David Headily so as to project himself as an American who was neither Musl

A bright-pink blanket was wrapped over  Huzaif Kutay’s head , binding it to the neck from which it had almost been severed by his killer’s knife. His executioners had recorded the last moment of the teenager’s life in their cellphones, in a style the world was introduced to by the Islamic State: masked men standing over the teenage boy, announcing judgement in God’s name for being an army informer. He had begged for forgiveness. "They said they would give me Rs 10,000 (for every terrorist). I thought it will help me waive off some of my loan," Kutay told his interrogators. "This time we are leaving his head so that it serves as a lesson," a killer announced in the video. "Next time, whoever is caught, their head will be thrown in the river," he added. Ashraf Kutay shows image of his son Huzaif, who was executed by militants. Image courtesy: Sameer Yasir Few of the thousands of people who live in the village of Mazngam in south Kashmir’s Kulga

 Firebrand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who is the leader of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan party, was detained ahead of a scheduled rally on Saturday in Islamabad. (Photo:  Islamabad:  Pakistani police late Friday detained a hardline cleric whose party recently paralysed the country with violent protests over the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy. Firebrand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who is the leader of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party, was detained ahead of a scheduled rally on Saturday in Islamabad, the country's information minister Fawad Chaudhry tweeted. "Khadim Hussain Rizvi has been taken into protective custody by police and shifted to a guest house," Chaudhry tweeted, adding that the move was not linked to the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was on death row for eight years before the Supreme Court overturned her blasphemy conviction last month. "It's to safeguard public life, property and order and has