GENOCIDE  WATCH

Kosovo policeman guards the site where forensic teams have begun excavations of a mass grave near the village of Kalluder, Wednesday, July 29 2026 (AP Photo/Florent Bajrami) 30 July 2026 KALLUDER, Kosovo (AP) — Authorities in Kosovo have begun excavations in a northern village after the discovery of human remains there that are believed to be of people missing since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war in what at the time was a Serbian province. Authorities say the site in Kalluder, in t

Genocide Emergency July 2026 By Grace Harris The Sudanese city of El-Obeid, where a drone strike killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP. (Credit: Reuters/File) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert for Sudan. The besieged city of El Obeid, Sudan is at immediate risk of genocidal massacres as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surround the city now held by the Sudan Armed Forces. El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, lies

Credit...Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder The New York Times July 11, 2026 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Last year, human rights experts warned for many months that a brutal militia was about to overrun a major Sudanese city, El Fasher, and massacre inhabitants. President Trump and other world leaders mostly shrugged. The militia went ahead and overran El Fasher, slaughtering some 60,000 people in a few weeks. Now the same m

By Justin Salhani Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity. Civilians stand outside their homes destroyed in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, in February 2025 [Raghed Waked/Al Jazeera] Beirut, Lebanon – In February 2025, Ali stood outside his house in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, and pointed at the crack in the foundation and fruit trees pulled up by the Israeli military. The Israeli military had recently withd

By Grace Harris and Franzie Schatzl Israeli soldiers standing guard in an alleyway in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Sexual and gender-based violence is pervasive in conflict today. Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) includes crimes such as rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, sterilization, forced marriage, and other acts of a similar nature perpetrated against people in a conflict-related setting.

Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022. A funeral for a Ukrainian soldier in Kyiv last year. Ukrainian forces have suffered 525,000 to 625,000 casualties, the study said. Nicole Tung for the New York Times July 1st 2026 More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia has been waging war against its neighbor, according to a new study, a bleak mil