Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of carrying out attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza “that violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes” during its 11-day assault in May. The [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s two-year investigation documented crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians. Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are [ More … ]
Renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who has been praised by President Donald Trump, commands the Libyan National Army, which in April began an offensive to seize the city from the United Nations-backed Government of National [ More … ]
United Nations investigators reported on Thursday that Israeli forces who fired on Palestinians during the mass demonstrations on the border with Gaza, killing more than 100 people, may have committed war crimes. The report, by [ More … ]
An international rights group has urged Libyan strongman’s self-styled army to lift its siege inside an eastern Mediterranean city where civilians have been trapped. Human Rights Watch said that over the past two weeks, General [ More … ]
The Syrian regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing and burning victims’ bodies in a purpose-build crematorium near Damascus, according to the US government. Syria regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing of detainees, while disposing tens [ More … ]
Local media reports in Libya stated that the head of the council of elders in the oil terminal district of Sidra was seized while traveling from Ajdabiya to his home in Ras Lanuf. It is [ More … ]
The Libyan National Army forces (LNA), loyal to Haftar, may have committed war crimes, including killing and beating civilians, and summarily executing and desecrating bodies of opposition fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi on [ More … ]
– Use of ‘indiscriminate weapons’ in recent Aleppo offensive may amount to war crimes, Secretary-General says – The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting Sunday regarding increased bloodshed in Syria, reported Anadolu Agency. [ More … ]
The ICC has been in touch with Israeli authorities to investigate possible war crimes committed during the last offensive on Gaza in the summer of 2014. Israel is holding discussions with the International Criminal Court [ More … ]
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