Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict are signaling a peace process in Turkey. However, Kurdish forces currently remain in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about a future peace.  

A late-night breakthrough occurred in talks attended by envoys of both outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza.  

Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he had championed was very close to coming to fruition, and Hamas said it was keen on reaching an agreement. 

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the backing of more than half of parliamentarians.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies have been targeting Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, since April 15, 2023. 

A United Nations panel of experts found in January 2024 that the RSF and allied militias killed up to 15,000 people in El-Geneina. 

Nearly a year later, the United States agreed with the UN experts, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken declaring on Tuesday that the RSF and its allies had committed genocide by attacking civilians and systematically murdering men and boys because of their ethnicity. 

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC).  

The vote signals a protest of the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. 

Chad's government has said security forces had thwarted an alleged effort to destabilize the country, after a group of people attacked the presidential palace in the capital, N'Djamena. 

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the crisis-hit, war-battered country.

Throughout 2024, ICTJ’s experts offered their unique insight on breaking news and critical developments in more than 11 countries as part of the ICTJ’s World Report newsletter. Their incisive analyses shed light on the political and socioeconomic forces at work and what it all means for victims and the pursuit of peace and justice.

Security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National Police announced.