Taliban govt clearing ‘un-Islamic’ books from Afghanistan shelves
KABUL — Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles — Taliban authorities are working…
Sudan women sexually exploited in Chad camps
ADRE, Chad — Crossing into Chad, the 27-year-old thought she’d left the horrors of Sudan’s war behind: the bodies she…
Over 90 hotels shut down, thousands jobless in Israeli-occupied territories
TEHRAN — Since the onset of the Gaza war, more than 90 hotels have shut down, leading to thousands of…
Hungry Palestinians in northern Gaza search for food in rubble of destroyed homes
JERUSALEM — With virtually no food allowed into the northernmost part of Gaza for the past month, tens of thousands…
Gaza mother struggling to feed children says only death can end their suffering
GAZA — Itimad al-Qanou, a Palestinian mother struggling to feed her seven children, feels abandoned by everyone. She sometimes feels…