Report Rebuts Russia’s Claims of Restraint in Syrian Bombing Campaign
By Michael R. Gordon Russian military officials have vociferously denied that their airstrikes have killed civilians in Syria, going so...
New York Times 1
Feb 12, 2017
Afghanistan: Attack on ICRC is a horrific crime
CRC / Norimasa Tochibayashi The killing of six employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in northern Afghanistan...
Amnesty International
Feb 9, 2017
Dozens of Mass Graves Found
A total of 32 mass graves have so far been discovered after the liberation of Sinjar and other Kurdish areas in the Nineveh Plain from...
Basnews
Feb 9, 2017
Amnesty Report Accuses Syria of Executing Thousands Since War Began
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in Damascus last month. He has denied accusations of abuses in Syrian prisons. CreditSyrian Arab News...
New York Times 1
Feb 9, 2017
Security Council, UN mission condemn attack near Afghanistan's Supreme Court
An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: UNAMA/Ari Gaitanis 8 February 2017 – The Security Council and the United Nations political...
Genocide Watch
Feb 8, 2017
13,000 people hanged in secret at Syrian prison, Amnesty says
By Joshua Berlinger and Lauren Said-Moorhouse (CNN)-Thousands of people have been hanged at a Syrian prison in a secret crackdown on...
CNN 1
Feb 7, 2017
Syria: Secret campaign of mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya Prison
A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass...
Amnesty International
Feb 7, 2017
Syria has secretly executed thousands of political prisoners, rights group says
Sednaya prison outside the Syrian capital Damascus where thousands were secretly executed, according to a report by Amnesty...
Washington Post
Feb 6, 2017
Court of Genocide to Be Formed in Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has voiced its consent for forming a special court to investigate the genocide in the Kurdistan...
Leyla Hemid | Basnewss
Feb 5, 2017
UN, Kurdish Official Express Concern for Post-ISIS governance in Mosul
Any scaling down of international support in Iraq after the military defeat of ISIS would have “grave consequences” for the country and...
Rudaw
Feb 3, 2017
Iraq prelate backs preference for minority refugees fleeing genocide
Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Erbil, Iraq. (Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.) Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil tells...
Crux Staff
Feb 2, 2017
The KRG’s Relationship with the Yazidi Minority and the Future of the Yazidis in Shingal
Following the closure of Yazda, a Yazidi humanitarian and human rights organization, by the KDP asa’ish (security police affiliated with...
Matthew Barber | NRT
Feb 1, 2017
