The United Nations (UN) released a report criticizing the Taliban for its displays of public corporal punishment, including public executions, lashings, and stonings.
Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on US troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a US base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a US counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people.
An outbreak of vaccine-induced polio has been declared by Burundian health officials, marking the first time the paralyzing disease has been detected in the East African nation in more than three decades.
U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews testified about being ignored and disregarded before a suicide bomber attack during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which resulted in the loss of American lives and has sparked outrage and condemnation towards the Biden administration.