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A German court has jailed a woman for more than nine years for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of ISIL (ISIS). The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership...

The Netherlands and Canada have submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of torture. Their application accuses the Syrian government of committing "countless violations of international law" since the country's civil war began in 2011. "Syrian...

Investigators commissioned by the UN’s top human rights body on Thursday accused Israel of “delegitimizing and silencing civil society” by outlawing Palestinian human rights groups and labeling their members as “terrorists.” The findings came in the annual report by the Human Rights Council’s...

Clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided the city of Ramallah in the West Bank early on Thursday in what the military said was an operation to demolish the house of a Palestinian accused of a Jerusalem double-bombing last year. The Palestinian health ministry said at least 35 people were wounded...

Libyan authorities rounded up thousands of mostly Egyptian migrants and amassed them at the border, activists said Saturday, as Libya continued its crackdown on migrants. The migrants were detained in raids over the past two days on trafficking warehouses in the border town of Musaid and other areas...

A Norway-based human rights group says Iran executed 142 prisoners in May, hitting a dark record even for the Islamic Republic. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) announced in its latest report on Thursday that the figure is the highest monthly executions since 2015, averaging five...

Years of violent attacks and restrictions by the Israeli army and settlers have forced the roughly 200 residents of Ein Samiya village out of their homes in what rights groups call a “war crime”. Among the villagers are 78 children whose school was singled out for demolition by Israeli authorities...

The European Union on Monday imposed new sanctions on Iranian officials and entities for their role in the violent crackdown on popular protests. The new package of sanctions targets five Iranians and two entities responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran, according to the European...

The remains of 605 people believed to have been killed by ISIL (ISIS) have been exhumed from a mass grave near a prison in northern Iraq over the past two years, a government agency has said. The group, which took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, had taken the inmates from the prison in...

El presidente ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, acusó este viernes a algunos líderes árabes de ignorar los horrores de la invasión rusa en Ucrania, durante un discurso en una cumbre de la Liga Árabe en Arabia Saudita. “Desafortunadamente, hay algunos en el mundo y aquí, entre ustedes, que cierran los...