A UN Human Rights Office report describing a multitude of atrocious rights violations in South Sudan especially singles out government forces for a campaign of mass rape.
The High Negotiations Committee of Syrian opposition groups will attend UN-brokered talks with the Damascus regime—but Kurdish leaders will have no seat at the table.
Amid reports of jihadist chemical attacks on Kurds in both Syria and Iraq, Turkey is reviving the same propaganda against Kurds that was used during the Armenian genocide.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, expressed concern that the proposed migrant exchange program between the EU and Turkey could be illegal.
Peshmerga forces in Iraq say ISIS repeatedly used chemical agents in recent attacks, while Syrian Kurdish militia accused Islamist factions of a chemical attack in Aleppo.
Fears are being raised for the security of activists and human rights observers in Honduras following the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.
Members of the Wampis people of Peru's Amazon seized a military helicopter, holding the crew and eight officials to press for an emergency response plan to a devastating oil spill.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro ordered creation of a "Special Military Zone" in the Orinoco Mineral Arc following reports of a massacre at a mining camp in the region.
“Omar the Chechen,” a top-ranking ISIS commander apparently killed in a US air-strike in Syria, is said to have been trained by the Pentagon when he fought the Russians in Georgia. (Photo via Levant Report)
Kuwait's Supreme Court upheld the four-year prison sentence against an activist found guilty of insulting judges on Twitter—the latest in a string of such convictions for illegal tweeting.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps claim to have test-fired several ballistic missiles, threatening the nuclear deal that just took effect earlier this year.
In a surprise dawn raid, ISIS forces attacked Ben Guerdane, the first Tunisian city west of the border with Libya, in an apparent attempt to establish an "emirate" there.
