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Syria has been invited to attend the next meeting of regional cooperation organization the Arab League, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 19. The invitation was issued by the Saudi government, which had long been opposed to normalizing relations with Syria's Bashar Assad regime and had even...

Hundreds of people have died in the Sudanese region of West Darfur, as fighting between the two rival military factions battling control in the country escalated as well as drawing in local militia groups. The most recent uptick of violence in the city of El-Geneina took place between Friday and...

A former strongman has wrapped up testimony before Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal this week, offering a harrowing look into paramilitary assassination programs orchestrated during the country’s decades-long internal conflict. Salvatore Mancuso, who used the nom de guerre...

Soldiers from Myanmar’s military government raided a village in the country’s central region, killing 19 villagers including four children and burning their bodies, independent media and a resident said Friday. The killings on Wednesday in Nyaung Pin Thar village in Bago region’s Htantabin township...

Malian soldiers and unidentified "armed white men" likely executed at least 500 people, and sexually assaulted or tortured dozens of others during a five-day operation in the village of Moura in central Mali last year, the UN Human Rights Office said on Friday. On March 27, 2022, Malian soldiers and...

The National Assembly of Nicaragua has voted to dissolve the local branch of the Red Cross, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, as part of an ongoing clampdown on groups seen as hostile to the government of Daniel Ortega. The attack on the Red Cross comes amid a widespread push to suppress...

Some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed, and had restrictions placed on their movement since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world body, the UN says. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers informed the UN early last month that Afghan women employed with...

The Iranian government is executing 10 people every week on dubious charges such as drug trafficking, blasphemy and “national security concerns,” according to human rights groups. The toll stands at 209 people executed as of early May in 2023, while the number for the whole of 2022 was put at over...

The United Nation’s top human rights body adopted a resolution Thursday that drew attention to mounting civilian deaths and rights abuses in Sudan since a bloody conflict erupted between the African country’s two top generals last month. The Human Rights Council — made up of 47 UN member states —...

A new report says that the killing of protesters amid widespread unrest may constitute “extrajudicial executions.” A human rights commission has stated that the Peruvian government committed abuses as it cracked down on widespread unrest following the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo in...