Melbourne, Australia - Australian members of the ethnic Hazara diaspora are desperately calling upon their government to do more to protect civilians in Afghanistan in the wake of heightened violence in the districts of

US senators have sent a strong message to the White House: they will hold Saudi Arabia to account over its role in the war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Senate

Taipei, Taiwan - "Every defeat is a deeper blow. But we'll keep on fighting until we are free," sings American singer-songwriter - and Taiwan transplant - Ellery Prescott in his song Keep on Fighting.

Saudi Arabia continues to hold more than a dozen women rights activists in jail, months after a crackdown on dissent intensified in May. Most of them campaigned for the right to drive and an

JEDDAH, ANKARA: The UN Special Envoy for Syria signed off from his posting on Thursday ruing “a missed opportunity” to help end the country’s conflict at talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. Staffan de Mistura,

DAMASCUS, Syria: Syria’s air defenses confronted an aerial “aggression” over the country’s south late Thursday, shooting down several targets and preventing them from carrying out their mission in the first such attack since Syria

LONDON: Tehran's support for the Houthi militia is a flagrant violation of security in the region, the US special envoy for Iran Brian Hook said Thursday. At a briefing on Iran's transfer of arms to proxy groups

Breakthrough, escalation or time out? It is an open question that will mark the next phase of the US-China trade war as Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping prepare to meet on the sidelines

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Every Thursday since 1977, a group of women march around the Plaza de Mayo, the square in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, where the presidential palace is located. Their demand?

A 78-year-old convicted serial killed has confessed to committing 90 murders in the United States over several decades, the FBI said this week.  The agency said on Tuesday it is working with state and