Defence`s Feeds

Amid unresolved wrangling with Taliban authorities over women's right to work and education and a decline in donor funding, the United Nations has cut its humanitarian aid request for Afghanistan by more than $1 billion, forcing aid agencies to stop giving critical assistance to millions of people.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer Carl Skau visited Afghanistan last week to see first-hand WFP's operations in one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. He witnessed the impact of the latest restrictions on women's employment and of an acute funding crisis which recently forced WFP to cut rations and drastically reduce the number of people

The UN's Middle East envoy said on Tuesday he was "deeply alarmed" at the continuing cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine, and "appalled by the continued loss of civilian lives."

This is a summary of what was said by Tomson Phiri, WFP Spokesperson for Southern Africa - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UN humanitarians issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday to help millions of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where chronic violence and displacement continue to fuel a dramatic hunger crisis.

Refugees deserve support and solidarity, not closed borders and pushbacks. That's a reminder from UN chief António Guterres on Tuesday's World Refugee Day, regarding the international community's duty to assist and protect refugees.

At a time of growing hostility toward refugees, the United Nations is marking World Refugee Day to honor the courage and contributions to society of people forcibly uprooted from their homes by war, persecution, human rights abuses, climate change and other horrors.

Today, the Department of State is designating two ISIS leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, under Executive Order 13224. Both individuals have committed sexual violence against Yezidis and were responsible for the abduction and enslavement of Yezidi women and girls. More than 2,700 women and children, mainly Yezidis, remain unaccounted for.

The United States announced nearly $172 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of Sudan and neighboring countries experiencing the impacts of the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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The U.S. State Department has blacklisted a prominent politician in North Macedonia for alleged corruption in the latest move by President Joe Biden's administration to toughen its stance on global graft.

The United States is designating the mayor of the municipality of Struga, North Macedonia, Ramiz Merko, as generally ineligible for entry into the United States, due to his involvement in significant corruption.

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said there will be "deliverables" on the defense cooperation front when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington later this week, but declined to provide details.

This is a transformational moment in the U.S.-India defense partnership, a senior Defense Department official said at the Pentagon today.

The Iranian hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali has published documents that it says show that a top Iranian prosecutor confirmed that a "full naked body inspection" of a female political prisoner had taken place at a police detention center.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said that sanctions are ostensibly imposed on governments of countries, but in practice, all the pressure is suffered by the people of those countries.