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A woman waves the flag of the Syrian rebels as people gather to celebrate the fall of the government, in Umayyad Square on December 8, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Rebel forces in Syria claimed that they had retaken the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was reported to have fled the country. © Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images

Syria: “Right Now I Am Not Afraid”

Many of us wanted change but couldn’t express it because of our extreme fear.

9 Dec 24

On the evening of July 29 insurgents attacked and shot dead four police officers at a security checkpoint along Owerri-Onitsha road in Imo state. © Kunle Adebajo

Separatists Abroad Are Funding a Conflict in Nigeria. Others Pay the Price

How overseas crowdfunding is fuelling a violent campaign by militants linked to a self-styled government in exile.

25 Oct 24

A still from a promotional video by ISIS Prisons Museum.

Remembering Islamic State Victims

Virtual museum documents Islamic State atrocities through digital technology and forensic investigation.

11 Oct 24

Smoke rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on October 2, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. © Daniel Carde/Getty Images

Lebanon in Crisis

Misinformation spreads panic in Lebanon amid Israel's ongoing offensive against Hezbollah.

4 Oct 24

The Beirut skyline is seen at sunset on August 06, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Despite ordinary people’s great resilience, we must never normalise civilians forced to live in a state of war.

9 Aug 24

Broadcast journalists record as smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes that hit the city's southern suburbs early in the morning on October 2, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. After escalating strikes against Hezbollah facilities and leadership, the Israeli army announced it was launching a "limited" ground invasion of Lebanon and told residents of more than two dozen villages in the southern part of the country to evacuate. © Daniel Carde/Getty Images

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Lebanese people are once again facing the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Hizbullah.

9 Aug 24

On November 7, Russian paratrooper Andrii Medvedev, 33, attended the hearing at the Irpinsky city court. He is standing trial for abusing civilians during the occupation of Irpin, a town 25 kilometres west of the capital, in March 2022. © Irina Domashchenko

Court Begins Examining Evidence in Case of Russian POW

Soldier accused of imprisoning and beating local Ukrainian men to obtain intelligence about the armed forces.

31 Jul 24

Residential buildings in a flooded area on June 8, 2023 in Kherson, Ukraine. Early Tuesday, the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant, which sits on the Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region, was destroyed, forcing downstream communities to evacuate due to the risk of flooding. © Alex Babenko/Getty Images

A War Crime Against the Environment

Could the destruction of the Kakhovka dam be prosecuted by the ICC?

31 Jul 24

Ukrainian citizen Hryhoriy Drahunenko, 62, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for collaborating with Russian troops in finding, arresting and beating civilians during the occupation of Novokiivka, a village in the Mykolaiv region. © National Police of Ukraine

Ukrainian National Sentenced for Collaboration

A pensioner helped the occupying forces identify Ukrainian men during the occupation of his village in the summer of 2022.

23 Jul 24

Crimea, an internationally recognised Ukrainian territory with special status, was annexed by the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Russia guilty of systematic violations of human rights in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula. © Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images

Landmark European Ruling Over Crimea Offers Fresh Hope

Decision by top European court provides basis for resolving hundreds of individual Ukrainian cases.

23 Jul 24

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Conflict

Syria: “Right Now I Am Not Afraid”

Separatists Abroad Are Funding a Conflict in Nigeria. Others Pay the Price

Remembering Islamic State Victims

Lebanon in Crisis

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Lebanon: Nothing About This is Normal

Court Begins Examining Evidence in Case of Russian POW

A War Crime Against the Environment

Ukrainian National Sentenced for Collaboration

Landmark European Ruling Over Crimea Offers Fresh Hope

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