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Military drone strikes in southwestern Sudan’s Darfur that killed more than 100 people—mostly women and children—earlier this week targeted a busy city market frequented by paramilitary fighters, witnesses said. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence, put the toll from Monday’s attacks...

The U.S. imposed sanctions on Rwanda’s defense ministry on Wednesday over the country’s involvement in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where fighting continues between the Congolese government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels despite peace efforts from the Trump administration. The sanctions come after a U...

United Nations human rights experts said Wednesday that Nicaragua’s co-presidents have established a dictatorship and that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.” The expert group has been investigating allegations of human rights violations and...

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a criminal complaint in the United Kingdom against Lidor Dafna, an Israeli reservist believed to be visiting the country, over alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Dafna, who served in the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion, is...

At least 62 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a community in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s emergency agency said Tuesday. The attack, reportedly carried out by criminals known as bandits, happened on Friday in Binnari community located in the Karim-Lamido local government area of...

At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in separate attacks on October 20 and 24 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, church officials reported. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s holy synod on Monday described the killings as “extremely tragic cruelty and suffering inflicted on our citizens”...

Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, leaving millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures, a UN-backed inquiry reported. The inquiry also found evidence that Russia recruited men from 29...

Jordan has carried out air strikes in Syria in “retaliation” for last week’s deadly church attack, killing at least seven people, including three children, according to Syrian authorities. The attacks on Monday prompted Syria to close its main crossing with Jordan. The Jordanian Armed Forces said in...

At least five people have been killed in Gaza and more than a dozen have been wounded in Israeli ground and air attacks. Four Palestinians, including a young girl, were killed on Monday in an Israeli air attack on a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...

Israel has committed crimes against humanity, including “extermination,” in the occupied West Bank, United Nations-mandated investigators have reported. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that the Israeli government and its...