At least 70 people are now reported dead after the strike on Al-Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur, Sudan, among them seven women and 13 children. More than 140 were injured, and the hospital–one of the most important medical facilities in the area–has been rendered non-functional, depriving more than two million people in Darfur of […]
Burning
Burning Durand Line
The Boya camp attack in North Waziristan, which killed four Pakistani soldiers and injured civilians, did not surprise anyone watching the western border. Violence there has not crept back; it has returned in force. Islamabad’s decision to summon the Afghan chargé d’affaires was therefore less a show of anger than an admission that its patience […]