Imtiaz Tyab

The two-day con­fer­ence in Uzbek­istan is part of ef­forts to en­cour­age the Afghan gov­ern­ment and the Tal­iban to en­gage in peace talks.

A Lebanese-Amer­i­can busi­ness­man, George Nad­er, is said to have been work­ing for over a year to win in­flu­ence in the Re­pub­li­can Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee.

State­ment fol­lows the re­lease of im­ages by Amnesty In­ter­na­tion­al, which ap­pear to show razed Ro­hingya vil­lages be­ing cleared to make way for mil­i­tary use, cast­ing doubt on Myan­mar’s plans to repa­tri­ate hun­dreds of thou­sands of refugees.

The most dan­ger­ous job for Iraqi sol­diers in Mo­sul is now iden­ti­fy­ing and dis­arm­ing un­ex­plod­ed mu­ni­tions buried in the rub­ble of the dev­as­tat­ed city.

UN high com­mis­sion­er for hu­man rights says Myan­mar is now us­ing star­va­tion as a weapon against the Ro­hingya af­ter months of vi­o­lent crack­downs.

Three days of air at­tacks by the Sau­di-led coali­tion have pound­ed a rebel-held re­gion in west­ern Yemen, dis­plac­ing thou­sands of peo­ple al­ready in se­vere need of hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid.

The project, known as TAPI, is be­ing de­scribed as a new page in re­gion­al co-op­er­a­tion.

Some In­di­an politi­cians have ac­cused mem­bers of Trudeau’s cab­i­net of sup­port­ing Sikh sep­a­ratists.

UN Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­to­nio Guter­res has paid trib­ute to Pak­istani right ac­tivist and lawyer Asma Ja­hangir fol­low­ing her death by car­diac ar­rest, prais­ing her courage in cam­paigns for jus­tice and equal­i­ty for all.

A para­mil­i­tary camp in Sri­na­gar has been at­tacked just hours af­ter a two-day at­tack on an­oth­er camp in Jam­mu was end­ed.