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A district court in The Hague has convicted a former member of a Syrian pro-government armed group for complicity in torture and illegal arrest in Syria and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The court said the defendant, identified in court only as Mustafa A, was a leading member of the Liwa al...

The United States government has announced it is once again designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “terrorist” organization. Washington’s move on January 17 to relist the group as “specially designated global terrorists” comes after the US launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to...

The UN Security Council demanded an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea in a resolution adopted on January 10 that implicitly condemned their main weapons supplier: Iran. It condemns “in the strongest terms” at least two dozen attacks carried out by the Houthis...

The killing of civilians in Gaza is at a scale unprecedented in recent history, monitoring groups have said, as Israel continues to pound the besieged coastal enclave more than three months into the war. Britain-based charity Oxfam said on January 11 that the daily death toll of Palestinians in...

U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, widening regional conflict stemming from Israel's war in Gaza. Witnesses confirmed explosions at military bases...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in proceedings launched by South Africa against Israel over the Gaza war on January 11 and 12, it said on January 3. South Africa had asked the ICJ on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations...

Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a highly disputed law passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government that rolled back some of the high court’s power and sparked nationwide protests. The law, passed in July, was part of a broader judicial overhaul proposed by Netanyahu and...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has closed an international tribunal that was created to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. chief’s spokesperson said Sunday. Over the years, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon held in absentia proceedings...

South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 21,500 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged...

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that not enough aid is entering besieged Gaza, leaving 40 percent of its population “at risk of famine” amid Israeli curbs on entry of much-needed aid trucks to enter the enclave. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees...