Following the call for three days of nationwide strikes in Iran, shopkeepers in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj have clashed with police forces who came to seal the strikers' shops on December 8.
Iran has apparently disbanded the notorious morality police, members of an Iranian theater group were detained after releasing a protest video, and anti-establishment protesters staged a three-day general strike.
The fall of Kabul Just a few days after I arrived in Kabul in November 2020 the city came under attack. Two dozen rockets were fired into the central Green Zone, home to embassies, government buildings, international news bureaus and affluent Afghans. It was also where I was lodging. I had been fascinated with Afghanistan for a long time; […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The Taliban swept into Afghanistan's capital Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade U.S.