Hande Kader, a transgender activist, was raped and burned to death in Turkey last week. She was last seen entering a client’s car and her body was later found raped and mutilated as it was left on the streets of Istanbul. Members of the LGBTQ community have become an easy target
Fighting in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, has killed dozens of civilians over the past weekend. The recent battle, waged by al-Assad’s government and backed by Russian jets and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, was meant to encircle the rebel-held east of the city to quell the rebellion. Moderate rebels, with the
Friday marked the return of the old as the Taliban launched a coordinated attack on the district of Dahana-e-Ghori in Afghanistan’s North. After days of fighting with the district under siege, the Taliban seized power on Sunday, taking their city as they had initially attempted four months earlier. Deputy police
Scores of civilians were killed in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last Saturday, August 13th when an unidentified group attacked a village near Beni town in North Kivu. The Governor of the North Kivu province, Julien Paluku, confirmed in a statement that at least 22 men and
The UNHCR reported that more than 50,000 South Sudanese refugees have sought refuge in neighbouring country, Uganda, over the past two weeks. Neighbouring states, such as Kenya have reported close to 1,000 refugees, thereby marking the continued civil conflict that has paralyzed the country for nearly 3 years. The current
