A legal fight is on to repatriate eight Australian women and their 18 children from a refugee camp in Syria. The group is being detained in the country’s northeast by the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) and its defence arm, the Syrian Democratic Forces. It’s alleged the detention of the group is unlawful…

Commentary A couple of years ago, Vegans produced a large poster featuring three photos: a human baby, a piglet, and a lamb. The caption read: “Equal but Different.” The thinking behind this is absurd, for it implicitly denies the distinctiveness and the responsibility of human beings and proposes a view of the world that is…

BANGKOK—The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country’s military. It said the two staff members were caught up in the attack in…

Save the Children, a United Kingdom-based humanitarian organization, claimed that at least 38 villagers were killed by military troops in the Kayah state of Burma, also known as Myanmar, while two of its staff members went missing. The organization said in a statement that two of its employees who were traveling home for the holidays after…