Hundreds of Iranian demonstrators have been killed in recent weeks as the country’s largest protest movement in a generation shows no signs of dying down. The grievances that lit the fire have…

Iran enters its second month of daily nationwide demonstrations in the wake of the death of the 22-year- old Kurdish woman Jina Amini after being detained by Iran’s morality police for supposedly…

The Islamic Republic of Iran enters its fourth week of nationwide protests despite the harrowing pattern of deliberately firing live ammunition at protesters as well as the rising death toll. Anti…

On Monday 26 September, about 500 people were arrested in Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. Amnesty International reported at least four children among those killed by the security forces…

When a person accused of crimes against humanity is elected president, the death of a detainee under torture becomes unsurprising. When the country is governed by a mentality that reflects hostility…

Over many decades, external efforts at institution-building in Somalia have failed to resuscitate a functional central government there. Somalia had endured many conflicts and tribal battles and had…

For almost a century, security turmoil, civil wars, terrorism, and cross-border conflicts have been some of the constant features of the Middle East region. However, in the past decade, the…

Talk of violations committed by the Houthi coup militias is not new. Each morning we read about new violation of the rights of Yemeni people amid an embarrassing world silence which proves that self…

Throughout most of modern history, beginning with Peter the Great's eastward expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia and China in the imperial periods of their history had controversial…

“Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under her reign,” said Liz Truss, UK Prime Minister in her tribute to the late monarch who…