At least 750 female detainees have joined in a hunger strike to protest harsh conditions at ICE's privately contracted 1,500-bed Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash.
More than 40 Somali refugees were killed when an Apache helicopter fired on a boat in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, but the Saudi-led coalition denies responsibility.
Two federal judges—one in Maryland and another in Hawaii—issued temporary restraining orders against President Trump's new 90-day travel ban.
Turkey's aspiring dictator Erdogan (carrying out his own ethnic cleansing against the Kurds) exploits the Srebrenica genocide in vulgar manner and calls the Dutch "Nazis."
Killings, forced recruitment and other grave violations against children in Syria were the highest on record in 2016, said UNICEF in a grim assessment as the war reaches six years.
Massachusetts has joined Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, and New York in suing to block President Trump's revised travel ban as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause.
Trump signed a new order barring nationals from six Muslim-majority countries that he hopes will pass judicial muster, but the ACLU pledges to fight it as a "Muslim ban."
Are the "false flag" theories about the anti-Semitic threats vindicated by the bust of a left-wing ex-journo? No, because exploiting anti-Semitism to score points is still anti-Semitic.
Syrian cinematographer Khaled Khatib was barred by Homeland Security from traveling to the US for the Oscars, where a documentary he worked on was awarded.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly issued two memoranda directing the department to implement Trump's harsh executive orders on immigration enforcement.
Politicians wielding a dehumanizing rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, warns Amnesty International in its new annual report.
Pakistani authorities have illegally driven nearly 600,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan since July 2016, with the complicity of the UN, Human Rights Watch charges.
