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Sri Lanka’s most recently unearthed mass grave has led to the discovery of 19 bodies, including those of three babies. The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of the island’s 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Trump made the announcement during a speech at Fort Bragg after watching a demonstration that includes 600 paratroopers landing on a runway and earth-shaking artillery...

A former defense minister of El Salvador and two retired colonels have been convicted of the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war, a lawyer for families of the deceased said. A five-member jury sentenced the defendants, now in their 80s or 90s, to 15 years in prison...

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human rights violations at militia-run detention facilities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was “shocked” by revelations...

Journalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organized crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International. Reporters have been physically assaulted and told they will be shot, stabbed, raped or blown up, making Northern Ireland...

Fugitive former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina orchestrated a “systematic attack” on protests against her government, Bangladeshi prosecutors have said at the opening of her trial over last year’s deadly crackdown. “Upon scrutinizing the evidence, we reached the conclusion that it was a coordinated...

Namibia has observed its first genocide remembrance day, honouring the estimated 75,000 victims who were massacred by soldiers or forced into concentration camps during German colonial rule. Between 1904 and 1908, an estimated 65,000 Herero people and 10,000 Nama people were killed when the groups...

Syria will set up commissions for justice and missing persons tasked with probing crimes committed during the rule of the Assad family, compensating victims, and finding thousands of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, the presidency said. Syria's grinding 13-year civil war has left hundreds of...

A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast this year. Abdulrahman Ibrahim survived Thursday’s attack on two villages in Baga in Borno State and participated...

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on May 17, the UNHCR said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts of the region. Most of the refugees were women and children, and 360 of them crossed the border in buses provided...