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Sweden has launched the trial of a former Syrian army officer over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 during the country’s civil war. The case against Brigadier General Mohammed Hamo, who resides in Sweden, opened on April 15. The trial is one of a very small number thus far against...

Armenia insisted on April 16 that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its case accusing Azerbaijan of breaching an international convention that aims to stamp out racial discrimination. At a preliminary hearing on April 15, Azerbaijan had urged the International Court of Justice to...

Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission on April 10 called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure recently released from prison. Bate Urgessa was gunned down on the night of April 9 in his hometown of Meki in Oromia, Ethiopia’s biggest region, according to the...

Rwandans are marking 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by armed Hutu tore apart their country, as neighbors turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century. President Paul Kagame led the commemoration on April 7 by placing wreaths on the mass graves in the capital...

Russian troops quickly occupied Bucha after invading Ukraine two years ago and stayed for about a month. When Ukrainian troops retook the town, they found what became known as the epicenter of the war’s atrocities. Dozens of bodies of men, women, and children lay on the streets, in yards and homes...

There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, according to a report issued by a United Nations-appointed expert. In the report, issued late on March 25, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories...

Bereaved relatives emerged weeping from a hospital mortuary in Kenya on March 26 after recovering the remains of loved ones whose doomsday cult leader induced them to starve themselves, according to the authorities. The bodies of more than 400 followers of the Good News International Church have...

Italy on March 24 marked the 80th anniversary of one of the most horrific World War II massacres in German-occupied Italy with solemn commemorations and a performance of a symphony honoring the dead. There, on March 24, 1944, 335 people were shot to death as a reprisal for an attack by partisans...

Central Buenos Aires was paralyzed for hours as massive crowds gathered for one of the largest March 24 "Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice" protests in recent years, AFP journalists saw. The normally festive, family friendly event was also joined by major trade unions, as anger rises over...

At least 65 migrants' bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on social media platform X on March 22. IOM said in a statement the circumstances of the migrants' death and nationalities was unknown "but it is believed...