Burkina Faso army Captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted military leader Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba, in what marks the second coup in the West African country this year.

Assadullah Haroon Gul was held at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years without charge and denied access to a lawyer for the initial nine years of his detention, says a US legal advocacy group.

With over 40 years of sanctions, including 8 years of war, Iran understood the importance of military independence. But how deterring has our military programme been and is it economically justified?

The US launched a drone strike killing ten civilians in retaliation for the suicide attack at Kabul airport and ended the war in Afghanistan the same way it was started; by slaughtering innocent Afghan civilians.

The longest war in United States history, has come at a cost of over $2.2 trillion, with around three and a half thousand NATO troops killed and more importantly, over 50,000 Afghan civilians killed, a conservative estimate, has millions displaced or turned into refugees.

The international community has reacted to the Taliban takeover of the Afghan capital with some politicians, including those in the West, criticizing the outcome of their 20 year presence in Afghanistan.

In his Eid message, the head of Yemen's supreme political council called on the UN to re-calibrate its position on the war in Yemen and to end the policy of double standards