Reuters International JUN 6, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik at a ceremony in Stanari near Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File […]
By Simon Bradley MAY 31, 2017 – Tzipi Livni is a prominent Israeli politician. She has held various government roles including former foreign minister (2006-2009), acting prime minister and justice minister (Keystone) The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed that it is examining a criminal […]
A tweet from the author Mason Cross of his daughter’s school feedback form has been shared thousands of times. Cross shared the photo on Thursday, and within hours it had been shared over 12,000 times and liked by more than 33,000. View image on Twitter The form asked his daughter what […]
May 14, 2017 by Muslims Writers Guild of America by Richard Reno We’ve all seen the tragic images of children killed or injured in the Syrian civil war. An estimated 55,000 children have been killed in the fighting. This is among the hundreds of thousands total casualties of civilian deaths. […]
By AFP – May 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Press members wounded by Israeli forces’ tear gas and plastic bullet attack during a demonstration to show solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, in Betlehem, West Bank, on April 04 (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — […]
Dozens of children were killed in Syria this weekend but where is the US president’s lament on how ‘beautiful’ they are, let alone action? Where are the denunciations by the EU and the UK? The West must react with equal outrage when it is Shias that are the victims of terrorism. Or […]
Reuters International APR 16, 2017 – A vehicle of the Iraqi forces drives along a street controlled by the Iraqi Federal Police during combat with Islamic State in western Mosul, Iraq, April 14, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares (reuters_tickers) By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi police on Sunday accused Islamic […]
APR 5, 2017 – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (left) and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter during the Syria conference in Brussels(Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter […]
Doctors say victims from attack on Khan Sheikhun were bleeding from the nose and mouth, had constricted irises and suffered from convulsions WARNING: Some readers may find the images in […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP BEIRUT AA Photo The US military says it carried out an air strike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where at least 42 people were killed according to an independent monitor. Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency reported that the […]
MAR 2, 2017 – UN investigator Carla Del Ponte at the presentation of the latest report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria on human rights violations committed during the battle for Aleppo (Keystone) United Nations investigators have accused both sides in the battle for Aleppo of committing war […]
Exclusive: Officials only come to an ‘overall judgement’ on whether weapons sold will be used to breach laws Joe Watts Political Editor @JoeWatts_ The Government does not make judgments over whether countries like Saudi Arabia have violated international humanitarian laws in specific cases before granting arms exports to them. Ministers have admitted they […]
Reuters International JAN 5, 2017 Shi’ite fighters gather to fight against Islamic State militants in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (reuters_tickers) ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against Islamic State are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by […]
In Iraq 11 years ago, Justin Huggler broke the story in The Independent of a 19-year-old Iraqi civilian driven to his death in the Tigris River by five American soldiers. The semi-autobiographical book he wrote about a hero reporter in Iraq is an absolute cracker Robert Fisk Berlin @indyvoices When […]
NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA 5 Years After Gaddafi’s Murder: Libya Destroyed NIRAJ SRIVASTAVA Friday, November 25,2016 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: When I arrived in Libya in March 1994 as a middle-ranking diplomat, the country was under UN sanctions related to the 1988 Lockerbie disaster. No flights to and from Libya were permitted; we had […]
Reuters International OCT 21, 2016 Civil Defence members inspect a damaged site after an airstrike in the besieged rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights official said on Friday that the siege and bombing of […]
The city of Gaziantep and the ‘Liberation’ mosque is a milestone on the journey between one great crime of the 20th century, and another seen during the Second World War Robert Fisk Gaziantep @indyvoices The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone banding, unusual […]
Oct 13,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The military campaigns in Syria and Yemen have been characterised by non-stop brutality and indiscriminate attacks from the air that killed and injured huge numbers of civilians. Not only have we witnessed the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Syria and thousands […]
Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 6 October 2016 3 April 2003 You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets rumbled the next day. So the news starts “Oh, apparently that uprising we yelled about […]
Last Saturday saw devastating air strikes on a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, which killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 more. Johnson’s first public response was to issue a tweet ANDREW SMITH Medics and rescue workers carry a body on a stretcher at the site of reported airstrikes by […]