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USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore (M) speaks during a meeting with Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5, 2019. He is flanked by USCIRF Vice Chair Gayle Manchin (R) and USCIRF's director of international law and policy Elizabeth Cassidy (L). | USCIRF Christian activists are divided in their responses to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom again recommending the State Department place India on its list of “countries of particular concern” for the worst violations of religious freedoms in 2020. In its latest report, the bipartisan comm...

Afghanistan: Voluntary Repatriation Update, January- December 2020 Format 2,147 AFGHAN REFUGEES RETURNED IN 2020 During 2020, 2,147 Afghan refugees have returned from Pakistan (1,092), Iran (939), and other countries (116) including India, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation. After a temporary suspension of voluntary repatriation starting on 04 March due to COVID-19, UNHCR resumed its facilitated voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees from Iran as of 30 April and from Pakistan and other countries as of 10 August 2020. In view of increased transportation costs due...

Updated: 3 Jan 2021, 18:52  IRAN’S military leader has vowed to turn US aircraft carriers in to “sinking submarines”. The threat was made one year after a US drone strike killed Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. 14 Commander-in-chief of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi threatened to attack the US NavyCredit: AP:Associated Press 14 USS Nimitz and the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea in formation during a Strait of Hormuz transit on September 18, 2020Credit: AFP 14 Qasem Soleim...

An unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus. Details remained scarce in the report by semiofficial Tasnim news agency. It quoted the chief of the country's Red Crescent Society as saying he expects the vaccine created by American drug maker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech to be imported by January 19 based on coordination with a group of ben...

Last Updated: Iran: Pfizer Vaccine Batch Expected From US Benefactors Iran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East, which has infected over 1.2 million people and killed nearly 55,000. An unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus. Details remained scarce in the report by semiofficial Tasnim news agency. It quoted the chi...