Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said Turkey’s state of emergency amounted to giving “a blank cheque” for police to torture, abuse or threaten people detained after the failed coup. The US-based watchdog cited 13 cases of alleged abuse, including torture, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse and rape threats among ...
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged the US-led coalition backing the offensive against terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri groups in Mosul to prepare for the aftermath of the city’s fall, including returning gunmen. “The recapture is not an end in itself. ...