President Joe Biden recently signed the 2025 defense spending bill, endorsing $895 billion in funding and extending the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act for another five years. Key measures in the act include monitoring human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang and imposing sanctions on Chinese officials linked to “genocide” against Uy...
Homelessness in the U.S. surged by 18% in 2024, marking the highest annual increase in recent years, according to a HUD report. On a single night in January, 771,480 people experienced homelessness in shelters, transitional housing, or unsheltered locations. Factors driving this crisis include rising housing costs, inflation, stagnant wages, ...
ANKARA (AA) – World leaders paid tribute to former US President Jimmy Carter, highlighting his lifelong dedication to peace, democracy and humanitarian causes. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban highlighted Carter’s contribution to Hungary during a challenging time. “By returning the Holy Crown to the people of Hungary at the en...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A UK-based Syrian rights group has said that it has compiled a list of around 16,200 members of the ousted Assad regime accused of crimes against civilians. “The ousted Assad regime committed serious violations that affected millions of Syrians,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a statement. The ri...
DAMASCUS (AA) – After the fall of Syria’s 61-year-old Baath regime, Anadolu filmed a torture center in the Syrian capital, revealing the Assad family’s abuses. Located in Damascus’s Kafr Sousa district, the intelligence headquarters of the Bashar Assad regime, nestled among ministries and government buildings, conceals underg...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 3,104 Native American children died in boarding schools in the US between 1828 and 1970 — a figure three times higher than the government’s estimate, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The Post described the deaths in the schools, which were established to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children int...
Beyond the human toll, 265 sports facilities have been destroyed, leaving Gaza with only one functioning stadium out of 10 Muslim Network TV RAMALLAH, Palestine (MNTV) – The sports community in besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza has been shattered by Israeli actions. Since October 2023, Israel has killed 644 athletes, including 359 footbal...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) – Civil Defense teams in Damascus are investigating human remains found in a warehouse in the Sayyidah Zaynab district. The remains are believed to belong to more than 20 people, including children. The discovery comes as mass graves and remains continue to be uncovered in Syria after the collapse of the brutal, [&he...
Six years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, 1,360 children remain separated from their parents, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The 135-page report highlights the lasting trauma inflicted by the policy, describing it as “calculated cruelty”. Children were forcibly taken from their parents, many left in angu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Suheil Hamawi, a Lebanese national, has returned to his homeland after 33 years of inhumane imprisonment in Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime operated numerous torture centers across the country referred to as “death hubs.” Following the regime’s collapse over the weekend and the opposition’s takeover, anti-re...
