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Khalil has committed any crime or, indeed, broken any law whatsoever," the amended petition said." The Rubio Determination and the government's subsequent actions, including its ongoing detention of Mr.... Khalil in rural Louisiana, isolating him from his wife, community, and legal team, are plainly intended as retaliation and punishment for Mr.... Khalil felt as though he was being kidnapped....

I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention by the Trump administration," she said in a statement to ABC News on Wednesday." Six days ago, an intense and targeted doxxing campaign against Mahmoud began.... They were making threats against Mahmoud and he was so concerned about his safety that he emailed Columbia University on March 7th.... Fourteen members of Congress have also signed a letter demanding his release. This is a developing story..

KABUL, Afghanistan( AP)--The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out.... So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs.... The staff, unpaid for months, still shows up for work, but they are struggling to make ends meet at home....

My parents came here from Syria, carrying their stories of the oppressive regime there that made life unlivable.... I need your help to bring Mahmoud home, so he is here beside me, holding my hand in the delivery room as we welcome our first child into this world.... While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so....

His family and other residents accuse an influential police checkpoint commander of taking the other boy’s side and abducting and raping Naseebullah, fatally injuring him.It is the kind of sexual assault that has run rampant within the Afghan security forces.... “ This crime defamed the name of Islam.” Naseebullah’s brother, Ehsanullah Barakzai, 26, said the governor had assured the family that no one, not even a powerful police commander, was above the law.... Akbar said families often don’t

This is the second installment in a short series from Today’s WorldView for the 20th anniversary of the 9/ 11 attacks.... But few even among the Washington establishment see that as an undisputed mark of triumph.... Instead, they grapple with debates over American imperial hubris and overreach....