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China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention centers in Xinjiang, where predominantly Muslim minorities are targeted in a forced assimilation campaign, and more of the facilities resemble prisons, an Australian think tank has found. The ...

His assault on Libya’s capital has collapsed. Foreign powers have tried to sideline him. But military commander Khalifa Haftar still sits astride oil terminals, with enough fire power and political sway to thwart any plans for peace. Having ...

Iran and Russia’s sovereign wealth fund are discussing the joint production of a vaccine against COVID-19, Russian news agencies cited the Iranian ambassador to Moscow as saying on Friday. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has said it ...

A group of Saudi dissidents, most of them in exile, on Wednesday announced the formation of a party to push for political reform in Saudi Arabia in defiance of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who ...

Iraqi doctor Tariq Al-Sheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID-19, beat him unconscious. About two hours later the 47-year-old director of Al-Amal Hospital ...

President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday highlighted Iranian longstanding civilization and cultural heritage, inviting the world people to Iran to see old civilization. World should get acquainted with Iranian civilization and the treasure-trove historical records of Iran, President Rouhani ...

A Serbian professor said that in its measures against Iran, US President Donald Trump’s administration does not have the support of Europe and is politically isolated. Trump’s administration withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action illegally, said Rade ...

The United States is conducting prudent planning to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by May 2021, a Pentagon official announced on Tuesday. “I’d like to make it clear that [Defense Secretary Mark Esper] has not issued orders ...

In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Ghazaaly’s kidney dialysis machine often cuts out due to an escalating fuel shortage in the country’s north. When the electricity generator runs out of diesel, nurse Mohammed al-Hattamy turns the blood-filtering machines ...

The level of violence in Afghanistan is unacceptably high and the United States expects further setbacks during talks, the Special Representative for Afghanistan said on Tuesday, as the Afghan government and Taliban remained far apart on even basic ...