Warrants Also Target Assad’s Brother Assad Faces Charges of War Crimes Arrest Warrants for Ousted Syrian President Assad French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six other former top officials. The warrants are in response to a 2012 bombardment of a rebel-held city that killed two journalists, an … Read more
An Israeli air strike on the northern Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of 12 members of the same family, including seven children, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence rescue agency. In a video shared on the agency’s Telegram channel on Friday evening, rescue workers were seen pulling victims from the rubble of the Khallah … Read more
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a 29-year-old Uzbek national in connection with the assassination of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, a high-ranking military figure and head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, as well as his assistant. The attack occurred early Tuesday outside Kirillov’s residential building in Moscow when a remotely detonated … Read more
A Russian missile strike has claimed the lives of at least eight people and injured 22 others, including a child, in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, according to local authorities. The Tuesday attack targeted a private clinic and residential buildings in the city centre, leaving five individuals feared trapped beneath the rubble, police said. … Read more
Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord and prominent figure during the country’s devastating civil wars from 1989 to 2003, has passed away at the age of 72. His death was confirmed on Thursday by officials from his political party and the Senate. Johnson gained global infamy in 1990 when a video surfaced showing him drinking … Read more
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. In a statement, the pre-trial chamber rejected Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction and cited “reasonable grounds” to believe the three men bear “criminal responsibility” for alleged … Read more
A Russian court has sentenced two soldiers to life imprisonment for the murder of a family of nine in occupied Ukraine, marking a rare instance of Russian troops being held accountable for alleged war crimes. According to prosecutors, Anton Sopov, 21, and Stanislav Rau, 28, killed the entire Kapkanets family in their home in the … Read more
As well as the 92 who have already been charged by Russia, some 96 people, including 51 armed forces commanders, are wanted… The International Criminal Court (ICC), which has described Ukraine as a “crime scene”, has also sent a team of investigators and forensics experts there EDITOR’S PICK Presidency Responds To Video Of Terrorists Flogging … Read more
Ukraine says it has uncovered multiple mass graves in Bucha, Borodyanka and other towns near the capital Kyiv that were briefly seized by Russian troops Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians EDITOR’S PICK Firm Announces Annual Tonnes Of Plastic Waste Generated In Lagos LASG Partners ELCA To Produce 128 Young Filmmakers Fresh Graduate Lagos To … Read more
Alleged war crimes in the region include the possible forcible transfer of people – including cases of adults and children – to different parts of Russia… Russia has denied targeting civilians or involvement in war crimes EDITOR’S PICK Bauchi Gov Moves To Reclaim Gov’ship Ticket, After Losing Presidential Bid IPOB, Obigbo Killings Made Wike Lose … Read more
Russia Using ‘Mobile Crematoriums’ To Hide Horror War Crimes, Says UK Defence Secretary. Ben Wallace also accused Vladimir Putin’s army of disposing of their own dead to disguise the true number of soldiers killed. EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine War: West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says Ex-Nato Chief As Putin Unleashes Cruise Missiles In Ukraine Elon Musk … Read more
Russia ‘Burying Bodies In Mass Graves To Cover Up war crimes’ In Mariupol. Thousands of civilians have been killed after weeks of shelling and much of the town has been reduced to rubble. EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine Crisis: Powerful Explosions Rock Kyiv After Russian Warship Sinks Elon Musk Stages $43bn Hostile Takeover Of Twitter Ukraine Crisis: … Read more
A new Russian ceasefire proposal to allow civilians to flee key cities has been branded “immoral” by Ukraine Corridors from besieged Mariupol and Sumy will lead to Ukrainian cities and to Russian ones EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken has said there are “very credible reports of deliberate … Read more
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has called for the commencement of a formal investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria. This follows a decade-long investigation into violence in the Northeast involving Boko Haram insurgents. According to the BBC, Bensouda said the vast majority of crimes were by … Read more