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Videos show Israel's military used incendiary bombs in Gaza that can cause horrific burns
Human Rights Watch says the use of white phosphorus is unlawful when done in densely populated area…
Sonam Sheth
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US Navy's elite Blue Angels demo team is getting its first female fighter jet pilot
Navy Lt. Amanda Lee is the first woman to be named a Blue Angels demo team jet pilot in the squadro…
Abbie Shull
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Taliban orders all women TV presenters in Afghanistan to cover their faces. 'They are afraid of educated women,' said one.
One female TV news presenter in Afghanistan said of the Taliban :I am sure, they don't want the pre…
Sinéad Baker
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Meet 5 women reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine from the front lines
Five prominent war journalists spoke to Insider about what they've seen in Ukraine and challenges t…
Talia Lakritz
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The Taliban faces questions about missing women activists as they seek access to $9 billion in frozen assets
Three days after attending a women's rights march in Kabul, two Afghan women disappeared. One poste…
Ali Latifi,Tamana Ayazi
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Afghans say the Taliban is too busy policing women to prevent a humanitarian disaster that could leave half of Afghanistan hungry this winter
Three months into Taliban rule, half of the population of Afghanistan faces acute food insecurity b…
Ali Latifi
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A group of Ukrainian women is selling their nudes to fundraise for the country's forces. They've raised over $700,000 in 3 months.
Nastassia Nasko, the founder of "TerOnlyFans," told Insider she feels proud of having found a uniqu…
Sophia Ankel
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Israeli commander says her unit of mostly women killed 100 Hamas militants
Female IDF soldiers were among the troops who fought off a Hamas terrorist attack on October 7.
Sophia Ankel
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US destroys all of its supply of toxic nerve agent, the military's last chemical weapons
The US is the final signatory to a 1997 chemical weapons treaty to destroy its stockpile, but Joe B…
Pete Syme
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Russian troops in Bucha turned to sexual violence against Ukrainian women — killing some and impregnating others — according to reports
The Ukrainian ombudswoman for human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, previously called the abuse by Russi…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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The US is finally giving Ukraine's military cluster munitions, deadly and controversial explosives that could be 'devastating' for Russia
Cluster munitions launch smaller bomblets that could hit Russian trenches and defenses hard, helpin…
Chris Panella,Jake Epstein,Br…
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A Ukrainian TikToker funded 100 abortions for Ukrainian women, citing laws that make it hard to get treatment if Russian soldiers rape them
Max Klymenko donated to the Abortion Support Network to help Ukrainian refugees access abortions. M…
Sinéad Baker
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Photos: I dodged the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan. Here's what it was like - and what I lost along the way
After the Taliban took control of Kabul, Fatimah Hossaini saw that she had no choice but to leave h…
Fatimah Hossaini
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Ukraine says it busted an all-female spy ring who fed crucial military intelligence to Russia and the Wagner Group
The women covertly photographed targets and informed on troop and vehicle movements to aid Russia's…
Mia Jankowicz
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Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen
A new report from the UN found evidence that women in the Kherson region of Ukraine have been victi…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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An Afghan women's rights activist might have been tricked into going to a safe house and then found dead. Others hoping to escape or live freely in the country worry they could be next
The murder of Afghan activist Frozan Safi has contributed to the climate of fear in Mazar-e Sharif,…
Ali Latifi
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Soccer legend Mia Hamm says she punished herself with push-ups every time she missed a shot in training - inspired by her military upbringing
Former soccer star Mia Hamm was a "Military B.R.A.T." - the child of a US Air Force pilot. She says…
Jackson Thompson
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A Kansas woman pleads guilty to training an ISIS battalion of 100 women as young as 10 years old in Syria, teaching them how to use grenades, AK-47s
"Over 100 women and young girls, including as young as 10 or 11 years old, received military traini…
Azmi Haroun
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The first woman has passed Naval Special Warfare's selection course. Here's the grueling 72-hour final test it took to do it.
The sailor will become a Special Warfare Combatant-Craft crewman, one of the smallest special-opera…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The Taliban has told working women to stay home 'temporarily' because the group's security forces are not trained to 'deal with women'
Despite the Taliban's reassurances, many fear the move could mean a return to the harsh restriction…