Southern Transitional Council, backed by UAE, told it could face airstrikes after its recent huge territorial gains

As many as 20,000 Saudi-backed forces are gathering on the border of Yemen as the separatist Southern Transitional Council comes under pressure to withdraw from the huge territorial gains it has made in the last month in the vast, oil-rich governorate on Hadramaut in eastern Yemen.

The STC is using its advance to raise its demand for Yemen to revert to two states, north and south, as it had been until 1990.

Claim filed in Argentina alleges crimes against humanity were carried out on Women, Life, Freedom protesters

A group of victims of the Iranian government crackdown during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 have filed the first criminal complaint against 40 named Iranian officials alleging crimes against humanity, including targeted blinding and murder.

The request for a criminal investigation to be launched has been filed in Argentina by a group of Iranians with the help of the non-profit Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. The Argentinian legal system is especially open to accommodating universal jurisdiction claims.