by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 18, 2016 | World
Cameroon- Fifteen-year-old girl Aisha Moussa wipes away her tears as she revisits the memory of being forced to wed a terrorist belonging to the notorious African Boko Haram terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria. Speaking from her current address, the Cameroon...
by Mohammad Ali Salih | Feb 7, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East, World
Washington- The Pentagon has released 198 photographs linked to allegations of abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them showing close-ups of cuts and bruises to arms and legs of prisoners held in US facilities. The Pentagon was forced to release the...
by Amal Al-Hazzani | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
There is only terrible news from Syria and the refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey about the situation of women and children. Inside Syria, women—even the old ones—are victims of kidnapping, murder, torture and a host of other unimaginable things. Why are...
by Fahd al-Zayabi and Hamza Mustapha | Jan 21, 2013 | Middle East
Riyadh/Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat – A Saudi prisoner, who wishes to remain anonymous, informed Asharq Al-Awsat in a telephone interview from Iraq that Saudi prisoners have been subjected to what he described as “racist” abuse from prison guards. He claimed that...
