Monday, 29 April , 2024

War crimes

‘Felt physically ill’: Australian defence minister Linda Reynolds on war crimes...

Australian Defence Force Chief General Angus Campbell on Thursday said the report found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers...

Yemenis seek justice for ‘unlawful’ US drone strike killings

28/01/2021 Two Yemeni families have filed a petition this week against the US government over the "unlawful" killing of 34 relatives, including nine children, in...

An Israeli Fascism? Is it possible?

Netanyahu’s Days May Be Numbered, but a Cadre of Far-Right Fanatics Wait in the Wings While every society has had to deal with its own...

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: ‘Execution’ video prompts war crime probe

By Grigor Atanesian & Benjamin Strick 24 October 2020 Videos of a potential war crime have emerged as fighting rages around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh...

5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire

A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of...

Mosul: One year on

After ISIL, a city still in ruins. by Tom Peyre-Costa 6 Jul 2018 More than 380,000 people are still displaced in and around Mosul as the city...

UN panel cites massive war crimes in US-backed war on Yemen

By Bill Van Auken 29 August 2018 A draft report prepared by a United Nations human rights panel has spelled out in detail the massive...

SSM Statement on the Liberation of Eastern Ghouta

The complete liberation of Eastern Ghouta is imminent.   Just as during the liberation of Aleppo, western governments and mainstream media inflated the numbers of trapped...

Iraqi Sources Place Real Death Toll In US-Led Siege Of Mosul...

by Bill Van Auken www.countercurrents.org According to intelligence reports from Iraq, the US-led massacre in Mosul has claimed a staggeringly higher toll of Iraqi civilian lives...

US Crimes in Iraq

Iraqi forces, leading a vigorous battle to liberate Mosul from ISIS, has been exposed torturing and abusing their captives suspected of having terrorists links,...