Citing potential damage to Israel’s foreign relations, the Supreme Court rejects a petition calling to reveal details of the government’s arms exports to the Serbian army during the Bosnian genocide. By John Brown* (Translated by Tal Haran) Israel’s Supreme Court last month rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defense exports to the former …

UN relief agency warns of crisis next month unless donor countries provide $60m

While one phrase of Syria's brutal nine-year civil war may be concluding, the systemic forced disappearance, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Syrians has not ceased. Amna Nawaz talks to Anne Barnard of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly The New York Times about the staggering inhumanity of Bashar al-Assad's regime and what accountability, if any, it will face.

As London and Washington convulse, China belches along, gobbling up cultures in a way that should alarm us all, CNN's Nic Robertson says.

Many fear worst surge in fighting in months could hail start of massive regime offensive on the rebel and jihadi-held province

An Israeli human rights NGO revealed on Sunday that the occupation authorities have forced around 3,000 Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem between 2004 and 2019. 'The Jerusalem Municipali...

Backlash against capital punishment in Egypt has reduced the number of executions but led security forces to increase their use of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

More Yemenis die from side-effects of war than from fighting, study finds

Human rights group claim incident is latest in series of ‘unjustified’ shootings involving young men

The Palestinian rights leader had a US visa that was valid until 2021

‘Dropping a few coins into a charity box does not make up for war crimes,’ human rights group says

Floods in the north of Syria have affected more than 40,000 displaced people living in refugee camps near the Turkish border, the UN announced yesterday. Speaking as some 24 trucks of humanitarian ...

The world's population is expected to peak and then decline this century, reshaping everything from economic growth and immigration to government spending and climate change.

Is gender a mere tool of the patriarchy? Or is it hardwired prior to birth?

Tens of thousands gather in Gaza in largely restrained demonstrations, as Palestinians elsewhere mark Land Day

“He is uniquely proud of such aggressive, anti-speech tactics to suppress people of color. This is a war of personal attacks.”

Amr Waked said he was told he was sentenced to eight years of prison.