As pro-Assad forces close in on the last opposition-held areas of Aleppo, reports are coming out of the stricken city that residents face mass detention and atrocities.
With action in the Security Council blocked by Russia and China, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding an immediate end to all attacks on civilians in Syria.
A group of human rights lawyers in Germany filed a criminal complaint against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Backed by unrelenting Russian air-strikes, Syrian regime forces advanceĀ on rebel-held eastern Aleppo, a grim inauguration of the fascist world order dominated by Trump and Putiin.
Trump's election has given Russia a green light for the destruction of Aleppo; Bashar Assad now has the open support of both superpowers in his war of extermination.
Villages are in flames and hundreds displaced in a new army crackdown on supposed Rohingya militants—days after President Obama lifted all sanctions on Burma.
Russian counterinsurgency in Syria mirrors US-backed counterinsurgency in Yemen, betraying superpower rivalry and "cooperation" alike as inimical to the region's revolutions.
Protests are reported from more than 30 cities across the world as part of a global day of "Rage for Aleppo" to oppose the siege and bombardment of Syria's largest city.
Amnesty International claims "horrific evidence" of repeated chemical weapons attacks carried out by Sudanese government forces against civilians, including young children.
The International Criminal Court released a policy document calling for prosecution of individuals for atrocities committed by destroying the environment.
With over a quarter million dead in Syria, the UN Security Council finally called an emergency meeting after the US for the first time bombed Assad regime forces—by accident.
In a public ceremony in Bogotá, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos asked forgiveness for the state's role in the systematic killings of leftist activists in the 1980s.
