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A German woman accused of taking her young daughter and joining the Islamic State group in Syria.
Four Middle Eastern countries performed 88 percent of known executions taking place worldwide last year.
China guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ against Uighurs: HRW
Human Rights Watch has accused China of crimes including torture and sexual violence.
Syrian chemical weapons victims start legal action in Sweden
Victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria have started legal proceedings against Assad regime officials.
Ramadan reading list: 20 books by Muslim authors
From across the literary spectrum, Sarah Shaffi picks her favourite reads for you to delve into during the month of Ramadan.
Comment: The Algerian flag stands for freedom against the people's oppressors: colonial and domestic, historic and present. No wonder France doesn't like it, writes Malia Bouattia.
Berbers mark 20 years since Algeria's 'Black Spring' protests
Berbers in Algeria are marking the anniversary for a protest movement that inspired the Hirak movement some twenty years later.
Eritrea says troops in Ethiopia's Tigray, vows pullout
A letter posted online by the country's information minister marks Eritrea's first explicit admission of its role in the war in ...
Assad's Syria will never be safe for Syrians
Comment: Denmark is well aware of the dangerous reality of Assad's Syria. Instead of an inhumane social policy, it should examine its own links ...
Palestine slams UK support for Israeli snub of ICC
The Palestinian diplomatic mission to the UK accused Boris Johnson of 'contradicting international law'.
UN alarmed over rise in settler attacks on Palestinians
Israeli settlers have tried to intimidate and terrorise Palestinians and take over their land, according to the UN Office for the Coordination ...
US Democrats question Biden $23 billion UAE arms sale
An arms sale, brokered by Trump, and approved by Biden, will be reviewed by the Foreign Affairs Committee, over concerns that weapons could be ...
Houthi missile attack starts fire at Saudi university
Saudi Arabia said that a Houthi drone attack started a fire at a university in the southwestern city of Jizan, as the US warned its citizens ...
How violence prevents healing after Islamic State
Comment: To begin healing in Iraq and Syria, we must find new strategies of acceptance that fight dehumanisation and radicalisation, writes ...
UK blocks bid to limit prosecution period for soldiers
Former NATO Secretary George Robertson said the bill would have 'undermined some of the most basic legal standards for which this nation was ...
Post-war Iraq at 18: A state of impunity endures
Comment: The impunity with which the US waged their invasion of Iraq paved the way for a culture of statebuilding based on more of the same, writes Ruba Ali Al-Hassani.
The Iraq Report: US troop withdrawal boosts Iranian ambitions
Iran views US reticence to continue operating in Iraq not only as a sign of weakness but as an opportunity to further cement its hold and power ...
American activist, ex-justice official Ramsey Clark dies at 93
Ramsey Clark, described as a defender of 'Palestinian and human rights' and an opponent of US wars with Iraq, died aged 93 on Saturday.
Germany's divided far-right AfD to launch election bid
Germany's far-right AfD is finalising its election manifesto amid internal division, links to radical Covid-19 deniers and accusations of ties ...
Hamas says Israel’s snub of ICC 'no surprise’
Basim Naem has said that Israel’s dismissal of the ICC probe is no surprise, but also expressed hope.
Israel's ICC rebuttal 'admission of war crimes': rights group
Euro-Med Monitor called on the ICC to initiate investigations and not to yield to any political pressures or allow the parties involved to evade ...
Rights group slams Denmark's designation of Syria as 'safe'
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has called on Denmark to rethink its decision to return Syrian refugees to Damascus.
Netanyahu's office declares Israel will not cooperate with ICC
The day before a key deadline, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Tel-Aviv would not be cooperating with the ICC's ...
Uighur women violated and repressed by Xinjiang's draconian policies
Uighur women and girls are not only enduring unspeakable cruelties in internment camps, subject to draconian sterilisation procedures, rape and ...
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