Between Belarus & Poland, Yazidi refugees find cold & hunger – then ‘came back to nothing’ in Iraq
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Smugglers took their money to spirit them out of Iraq, but Belarus’s authoritarian regime pushed them to Europe’s frontier, where Polish...
Dictators Face Democratic Backlash, Says Human Rights Watch
LONDON — Autocratic leaders are facing a democratic backlash from their people in several countries around the world, according to the...
Sweden and France launch joint task force to prosecute ISIS fighters over Yazidi genocide
Joint investigation team will avoid the need to interview victims twice Authorities in Sweden and France have launched a joint team to...
Atrocities Of Past Two Decades And Zero Accountability For Its Culprits – OpEd
Major global events, committed in the name of freedom and democracy, have occurred in the past two decades that cannot be categorized as...
Mrs World: Beauty queen's US visa 'refused due to Syria link'
A UK beauty queen denied permission to fly to the US to compete in a global pageant says she believes her visa was refused because she...
Guantanamo Bay: ‘The legal equivalent of outer space’
How the US decided on a place where suspected ‘terrorists’ could be jailed without legal protections after 9/11. Twenty years ago, the...
In 2021, normalisation failed to mask the suffering in Syria
2021 marked a decade since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, with violence and economic hardship still rife. The year 2021 marked a...
Turkey’s attack on Syrian Kurds aims to deepen intra-Kurdish rift
The Christmas day attack on members of the Syrian Revolutionary Youth marks a new level of escalation in Ankara's ongoing military...
Yazidi genocide: landmark guilty verdict for IS jihadi could transform how atrocities are brought to
The genocide verdict brought recently by a German court against an Iraqi member of Islamic State for crimes including the murder of a...
On Syria’s Ruins, a Drug Empire Flourishes
Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new...
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