At least seven people died and over a hundred wounded during anti-coup protests in Sudan on Monday. Thousands of demonstrators near the military headquarters in Khartoum were shot at after General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan dissolved the military-civilian Sovereign Council, a …
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) expressed grave worry about this week’s attacks on Durga Puja celebrations in Bangladesh and the country’s ongoing communal unrest. Several Hindu holy sites have been attacked in recent days, which Bangladesh’s …
Members of Bangladesh’s ruling party, Awami League, rallied on Tuesday in support of the minority Hindus after the worst inter-communal violence in ten years. According to local media, at least six people, including two Hindu men, died and several Hindu-owned …
Tatmadaw forces have rearrested political prisoners just a day after they were released on humanitarian grounds. The Irrawaddy reported that 11 of 38 political prisoners that were released from Meiktila Prison have been arrested again by police. The 11 rearrested …
Tokyo’s Defense Ministry said Monday that 10 Chinese and Russian warships passed through the Tsugaru Strait, located between Japan’s main island of Honshu and Hokkaido to the north. The passage was the first time the Japanese ministry has acknowledged the …
Iraq has arrested the mastermind behind the suicide bombing in Baghdad in 2016 that killed over 300 people, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced. Al-Kadhimi said on Oct. 18 that Iraqi forces arrested Ghazwan Alzawbaee “in a complex intelligence operation outside …
Palestinian terror group Hamas challenged the Israeli government to transfer eight million dollars from the UN’s Qatari fund aid to Hamas members by Tuesday, October 19. Hamas said that the transaction should be made if it hopes to make peace …
The State Administration Council of Myanmar announced that it has remitted sentences of 1,316 political prisoners and closed 4,320 cases. Junta Commander-in-Chief of Defence Min Aung Hlaing, who was recently excluded from the upcoming ASEAN summit said that the releases …
Nigeria’s chief of defense staff reported on Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of an Islamic State-linked extremist group, died. However, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group has yet to confirm. “I can authoritatively confirm to you that …
Panama officials said on Thursday that several bags of human remains were removed from a mass grave in Panama as part of the ongoing hunt for victims of the 1989 United States invasion of Panama. Attorney General Geomara Guerra said …