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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government's restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah Agha, minister of education, and Neda Mohammad...

Pakistani airstrikes on two Afghan provinces overnight killed at least 10 civilians, Afghanistan and the United Nations said Thursday, with the cross-border conflict between the two countries showing no signs of abating. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information said its strikes were against militant...

An airstrike carried out by Myanmar’s military near a market in territory controlled by a powerful rebel group killed at least 49 people and wounded 58 others on Monday, the group and a rescue official said. The attack in western Rakhine state was the latest in a series of deadly airstrikes against...

Gunmen opened fire on an ambulance attending the scene of a suicide bomb attack at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan that killed at least 12 people on Saturday and wounded about 35 others, officials said. The attack involving an explosives-laden vehicle occurred in Dera Ismail...

Pakistan said it carried out airstrikes early Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan— it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier—a sharp escalation in fighting between the two countries that threatens international mediation efforts. The airstrikes struck the southern and...

Women political prisoners in Myanmar have faced torture, sexual violence, unsanitary conditions, and life-threatening denials of medical care, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, calling for their immediate release. Myanmar suffers a civil war, affecting most of the country, following the...

A Sri Lankan court found 15 men guilty on Tuesday of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500. The April 21 attacks targeted three churches and three hotels across the island nation during Easter services and celebrations. The Islamic...

At least three people have been killed in northeastern Afghanistan in Pakistani air raids, Afghan officials said. Kunar provincial spokesperson Farid Dehqan told Al Jazeera that the air attack hit the Nurgal district at about 4am local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday), killing three people and...

Former Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, has appeared in person for the first time at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is charged with crimes against humanity for killings during his “war on drugs”. Prosecutors accuse Duterte — who was arrested and transferred to The Hague-based...

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonization was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed. Modelling by a national research group puts the population levels before the 1788 first fleet arrived at...