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Iraqi soldiers regained control of part of an important highway connecting Baghdad to the northern part of the country, where human rights organization Amnesty International said extremists have been carrying out ethnic cleansing. Iraqi soldiers backed by militia have been on a push north after ending an extremist siege by fighters from the Islamic State (IS) in the Shi’ite Turkmen …

Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday said that Turkish authorities were “as abusive as ever” in their handling of protesters in the country. Only a year ago, allanti-government demonstrations in the country were brutally crushed by the government. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said, “The Turkish authorities have been relentless in their crackdown on protesters — be it …

According to Amnesty International, several dozens of Syrians have for months been held in secret detention at a military camp in Egypt. New evidence gathered by the group suggests that the Syrians being held in the camp were subjected to torture to make them confess to certain crimes. Egyptian activists and lawyers have reportedly seen a list of at least …