There was nothing benevolent about the effigy that was burned in a Polish town on Good Friday, with its hooked nose, its sidelocks, its wide-brimmed hat, and the words “Traitor” and “Judas 2019” scrawled in black ink across its misshapen, straw-filled body.

"Fundamentally, war is a contest of wills."

Women's rights activists are just as worried about warlords and the strongmen who dominate Afghanistan's U.S.-backed leadership as they are about the Taliban.

As Russia, Turkey, and Iran hold new talks to restore peace, Syrian Ambassador to the U.N. Bashar Jaafari also blasts Western nations who refuse to repatriate ISIS members, saying that they are "making Syria a victim twice."

Supreme Spiritual Council of Iraq's Yazidi community says media "distorted" earlier statement regarding the status of Yazidi women abducted into sexual slavery by Islamic State.