When the news broke of the bloody attack in the Kashmir’s popular rolling valleys of Pahalgam, in which militant gunmen shot dead 25 tourists and a guide, Ahmad felt sickened.
In a region so familiar with bloodshed and the loss of innocent lives, the gut-wrenching stories that emerged – of newlyweds being killed, of victims singled out and targeted for their religion – brought back his own memories of grief and loss growing up in Kashmir.
Recruited for the War in UkraineMeet the Chinese Soldiers Fighting in Russia's Army
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia is hoping to pull Beijing into the war by deploying Chinese volunteers on the front in Ukraine. Many of them are active on Chinese social media. DER SPIEGEL tried to track them down.
The solder who calls himself "Little Hu” looks like a child, with round facial features and a slender upper body. He grins into the camera as he sits down on a stool wearing his army boots, next to him a bunkbed and lockers of a kind familiar from military barracks. "You’re sure?” a comrade asks him. Hu nods. Then the shaver begins to hum and thick black hair rains down from his head until all that’s left is short stubble. "Cool shit!” Hu says excitedly. His almost bald head now has the letter "Z” shaved into it, the symbol of support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Sudan's RSF paramilitaries launch first attack on de facto capital
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