The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) will lay down their arms only after peace returns to Syria, the militia’s spokesman Nuri Mahmud said. Mahmud argued that the weapons supplied by the United States were used to combat terrorists, according to a Jordanian news channel, Al-Hadath. The YPG said it had ...
A prominent Bahraini activist on Monday lost his final appeal against a five-year jail term for writing tweets deemed “offensive” to the Bahraini regime. The Gulf regime’s supreme court, whose verdicts are final, upheld the jail term against Nabeel Rajab, his second imprisonment verdict this year, for criticizing the monarchy ...
