Conflict and arms
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A moment that changed me: a rebel fighter who risked his life for love was murdered, and part of me died too
As a journalist in a conflict zone I was used to covering deaths. But then a young insurgent who had laid down…
- Conflict and arms, Europe, Global development, Human rights, Protest, Russia, South and Central Asia, Tajikistan, World news
Twenty-five ethnic Pamiris killed by security forces in Tajikistan protests
Escalating tensions erupt into regime-backed violence against the minority group in the autonomous region of G…
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Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’
Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime – leaving sup…
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Myanmar junta accused of forcing people to brink of starvation
Advisory group say military has destroyed supplies, killed livestock and cut off roads used to transport food …
- Afghanistan, Africa, Arms trade, Conflict and arms, Doctors, Global development, Global health, Health, Hospitals, Human rights, Iraq, Middle East and North Africa, Rwanda, Society, South and Central Asia, Sudan, World news
‘Maestro of humanity’: Italian surgeon Gino Strada dies at 73
Tributes paid to doctor whose NGO set up world-class hospitals in war zones such as Iraq, Yemen and SudanTribu…
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Civilian deaths in conflict plummeted during pandemic, report finds
The number of civilians reported killed in explosions nearly halved in 2020 to the lowest level in a decadeThe…
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Global development, Internally displaced people, South and Central Asia, Taliban, US news, World news
‘Shot at by both sides’: Families flee as Taliban battles for territory in Kandahar
Villages in southern Afghanistan have become frontline of conflict as peace talks stall and uncertainty surrou…
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Global development, Police, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
‘I am not afraid to fight’: the female Afghan colonel who survived the Taliban’s assassins
Saba Sahar, who returned fire while protecting her daughter, survived one of a wave of recent assassination at…
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Global development, South and Central Asia, US news, Women, World news
US warns Afghan women of increased risk of extremist attack
Message from the US embassy comes during long-postponed direct talks between the government and the TalibanThe…
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Global development, Islamic State, South and Central Asia, World news
‘There hasn’t been rehabilitation’: Afghanistan struggles with fate of ‘Daesh wives’
The Afghan government is facing hard decisions over the futures of hundreds of detained radicalised women and …
- Afghanistan, Conflict and arms, Coronavirus outbreak, Global development, Infectious diseases, South and Central Asia, World news
‘No profit, no food’: lockdown in Kabul prompts hunger fears
Residents of Afghanistan’s capital face stark choice between providing food for their families and limiting ri…
- Afghanistan, Biology, Conflict and arms, Coronavirus outbreak, Global development, Global health, Infectious diseases, Iran, Medical research, Microbiology, Middle East and North Africa, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
Coronavirus in a war zone: Afghanistan braces for outbreak after first case
Lone Kabul laboratory preparing to treat patients in the midst of political turmoil and tentative peace talks,…
- Aid, Conflict and arms, Global development, Myanmar, Politics, Society, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
UK to still fund Myanmar camps despite fears of ‘apartheid-like’ conditions
Humanitarian agencies say Rohingya people displaced by violence in Rakhine state are forced to live in squalid…
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Japanese aid chief among six dead in Afghanistan attack
Japanese prime minister among those to pay tribute after Tetsu Nakamura is killed in deadly ambush on carThe h…
- Bangladesh, Conflict and arms, Culture, Documentary films, Film, Global development, Rape and sexual assault, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out | Lucy Lamble
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during …