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Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) Robert Petit, leading a delegation from the Independent International Impartial Mechanism (IIIM), concluded a series of high-level meetings during his second visit to Damascus, including a meeting with the Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani and officials from the...

The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table, the head of the African Union's diaspora division said. "There is no better time as this to discuss the issue of reparations as Africans...

Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladeshi government has said. The announcement, following talks in Bangkok, offered a possible breakthrough in the long-stalled repatriation process, although many...

For more than 40 years, people in Hama spoke in whispers about the February 1982 massacre that then-President Hafez al-Assad unleashed on this city. Speaking about it could lead a Syrian to join the hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in al-Assad’s prisons. Now, Syria’s fourth-largest city...

Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country as the majority of French forces departed from countries across West Africa. Some 80 French servicemen will continue to stay in the country to advise and train the Ivorian military, according to the French...

Former colonial powers must apologize and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mitchell addressed von der Leyen late on Wednesday at the 48th heads of government...

The Netherlands agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were looted in the late 19th...

In four days of testimony at the Hague trial for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-accused of war crimes, Sylejman Selimi said the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) General Staff “was not functional”. The defense is seeking to prove that the KLA did not have a rigid command structure like...

A court in Stockholm convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity, and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority, sentencing her to 12 years in prison. The woman, identified as 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq...

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday re-opened four cases of war crimes committed in that country during the 1990s. It announced that criminal cases were being formed in connection with war crimes in Morinj, Bukovica, Kaludjerski laz, and the deportation of refugees from Herceg...