“Colleagues twice my age and thrice well read, wanted to know why a young girl who could travel anywhere around the world, chose to visit a country literally broken down to shambles. They felt the urge to ask if I had converted to Shi’ism,” writes Noor Amina Tiwana.

The first grain-carrying ship to leave Ukrainian ports in wartime safely anchored off Turkey’s coast on Tuesday. At the same time, a senior official said Ankara expects the roughly one-grain ship to depart from Ukraine every day as long as the export agreement holds. The first ship, the Razoni, carrying …

On Tuesday, the Popular Mobilization Committee announced a security operation to secure the borders between Nineveh and Saladin governorates. In a statement, the Committee said that a joint force from the PMF’s Saladin Operations Command (brigade 51) and the Counter-Terrorism Service of the Iraqi Army operated on the borders. The …

The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone missile while he stood on a balcony at his home in downtown Kabul, U.S. officials said, the biggest blow to the militants since Osama bin Laden was shot dead more than a decade ago. Afghanistan’s Taliban government has …

Four United Nations experts strongly denounce the Israeli regime’s harassment of human rights activists trying to provide support for the Palestinian communities that face forcible eviction from their houses in a southern West Bank area. “Israeli authorities’ hubris is proving without limits. They are even harassing human rights defenders and …

The US House speaker’s visit is a violation of the ‘One China’ policy and the country’s sovereignty, Beijing says