The US invaded Iraq in complete impunity. 18 years on, the legacy enduresIt's been 18 years since US forces paraded through Baghdad's streets, celebrating the overthrow of the Baathist dictatorship. Iraqis...
Istanbul Convention: How a European Treaty against Women's Violence Vecame PoliticizedThe Istanbul Convention seeks to end violence against women — but in recent years it has become increasingly politicized. Turkey has ...
France Has ‘Overwhelming’ Responsibility for Rwanda Genocide, Report SaysThe report, commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron, found that France’s colonial mind-set had blinded it to the atrocity. The authors,...
Minnesota Man Who Trained with Islamic State Pleads Guilty Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, a U.S. citizen from St. Louis Park, Minn., pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to fighting with ISIS in...
Pardons and Iraq: A Familiar StoryBlaming the pardons of the Blackwater mercenaries on Trumpism is an appalling act of revisionism. An Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a...
Blackwater’s Bullets Scarred Iraqis. Trump’s Pardon Renewed the PainIraqi witnesses against Blackwater guards were promised justice after a mass killing in Baghdad in 2007. ‘Today,’ one said, the bullets...
Relative of Blackwater Victim in Iraq Says Pardons 'Unfair'December 28, 2020 IMAGE: In this Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security...
In the Valley of Death: Somaliland’s Forgotten GenocideThirty years ago, the US-backed Somali government slaughtered an estimated 200,000 people. Now survivors want US help uncovering the...
How famines are formed: In Gaza and elsewhere, an underlying pattern that can lead to hunger and death