Fighting Resumes In Aleppo After Cease-Fire Ends
Fighting has resumed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a day after the end of a 72-hour “humanitarian” cease-fire that had been declared by Damascus and its main ally, Russia.…
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Trump, Clinton Highlight Policy Proposals in Final Stretch of Campaign
Just more than two weeks before U.S. elections, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are highlighting the agenda each wants to bring to Washington as America’s next president. VOA’s Michael Bowman…
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continue readingIran’s Rohani: U.S. Election Choice Between ‘Bad And Worse’
Iranian President Hassan Rohani said he had no preference in the upcoming U.S. election, which he described as a choice between “bad and worse.” …
continue readingPrices, Poverty Soar in IS-held Parts of Iraq
When Peshmerga soldiers cut off Islamic State’s supply route from Mosul to her village in Hawija, sugar prices suddenly shot up 30 times, according to Layla, a mother of three.…
continue readingIraqi Army, Kurds Join Forces At Khazir Front Line
Named after the town of Khazir, the flank pushing into the Islamic State (IS) militant group’s stronghold of Mosul from the northeast is jointly operated by Iraq’s Counterterrorism Service and…
continue readingClinton Aims to Get More Democrats Elected to Congress
Democrat Hillary Clinton, confident of winning the U.S. presidency in next month’s election, is now dismissive of Republican Donald Trump and making new efforts to elect more Democrats to Congress…
continue readingSpain’s Socialists Vote to End Political Impasse
Spain’s Socialist party has unblocked the conservative Popular Party from forming a minority government, which finally brings to an end the country’s nearly 10-month political impasse. Members of the Socialists’…
continue readingIraqi Troops Advance East Of Mosul
Iraqi Army servicemen said on October 22 they were tightening the grip on the Islamic State (IS) militant group in the town of Hamdaniya, southeast of Mosul, the group’s main…
continue readingIran’s President Criticizes US Presidential Candidates
Several leaders around the world have taken the liberty to pass judgement about the presidential election in the United States. Iran’s president is the latest. Speaking Sunday in a televised…
continue readingFlashy Boy Band Roils Some As It Tours Kazakhstan
A stormy tour by Kazakh K-Pop band Ninety One shows that androgyny and conservatism don’t mix easily in some of the country’s more remote areas. …
continue readingRelatives Search for Victims of Deadly Cameroon Train Crash
Thousands of Cameroonians have been flooding hospitals in the country’s political and economic capitals Yaounde and Douala in search of corpses and survivors after a train crash that left more…
continue readingGunman Killed Near NATO Training Center In Georgia
A gunman has been killed outside a NATO military training center near the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. …
continue readingRussian Police Kill Two Suspected Of Carrying Explosives
Russian police have killed two people suspected of carrying explosives in a vehicle after a shoot-out in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, according to Russian media reports. …
continue readingIndian Centers Preparing School Dropouts for Return to Education
Although India has significantly increased school enrollment in the past decade, millions of children continue to drop out every year. To overcome that challenge, voluntary centers are preparing some of…
continue readingUS Justice Department Reducing Number of Federal Election Observers
Comments by Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump about electoral fraud have alarmed many in the U.S. and abroad. Free and fair elections have always been the cornerstone of American Democracy…
continue readingPakistan ‘Squeezing’ Fugitive Taliban Leaders to Leave or Engage in Afghan Peace Process
Fugitive Afghan Taliban leaders are being increasingly pressured to relocate from Pakistan along with their families and businesses for refusing to join peace talks with Kabul, officials and insurgent sources…
continue readingLittle Known Group Says It’s Behind Egypt Officer’s Killing
A little known Egyptian group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Egyptian army officer outside his suburban Cairo home. The claim came in a statement by the…
continue readingIraqi Forces Advance On Mosul; IS Militants Attack Western Iraqi Town
As Iraqi forces advance toward Mosul, Islamic State (IS) militants have launched an attack on a town in Iraq’s western Anbar Province in an attempt to divert attention from the…
continue readingDuterte: Filipinos May Be Able to Return to Disputed Shoal
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that Filipino fishermen may be able to return to the Chinese-held Scarborough Shoal in a few days after he discussed the territorial rift with…
continue readingPolls Open for Runoff in Parliamentary Election in Lithuania
Lithuanians are heading to the polls for runoffs in parliamentary elections that may give the opposition a chance to govern after four years of rule by a coalition led by…
continue reading174 Inmates Escape Haiti Prison
Scores of inmates from a Haitian prison escaped Saturday after killing an officer and stealing weapons, authorities said. Judge Henry Claude Louis-Jean said others were injured in the prison break…
continue readingFighting Resumes in Aleppo
Fighting returned Sunday to the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, after a three-day humanitarian pause. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported air strikes, ground offensives and shelling. The…
continue readingMajlis Podcast: The Shrinking Space For Religion In Central Asia
The thing the governments in Central Asia fear the most is religion. Secular opposition there has been nearly eliminated and in its place religious opposition has appeared. (The views expressed…
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