De facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejected a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate crimes by Burma's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.
Human Rights Watch reports that it has found new evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in at least four recent attacks targeting civilians.
Thousands of indigenous protesters clashed with police outside the congress building in Brasilia, during a demonstration over territorial and land rights in the Brazilian Amazon.
UN chief Antonio Guterres' assertion that "denial of the right of the State of Israel to exist" is "the modern form of anti-Semitism" is an insult to anti-Zionist Jews worldwide.
Western media refer to "evacuation" and "population transfer" of besieged Syrian towns, euphemisms that mask the sectarian and genocidal element of the regime strategy.
Hearings began in Spain on potential war crimes committed by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria, in a case brought by a Spanish national whose brother was tortured to death.
Trump, whose own air-strikes have killed hundreds, decides he must bomb an Assad air-base to retaliate for a gas attack—while the "anti-war" left is undisturbed by the gas attack.
Spain's top court will investigate claims by a Spanish woman that her brother was tortured and murdered by Bashar Assad's security forces, opening a window into his gulag.
Seven army officers have been arrested and charged with war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo following a video-recorded massacre that went viral on social media.
Turkey's aspiring dictator Erdogan (carrying out his own ethnic cleansing against the Kurds) exploits the Srebrenica genocide in vulgar manner and calls the Dutch "Nazis."
Under UN oversight, the FARC guerillas began the process of turning over their weapons at the 26 "transitional camps" established for the purpose around the country.
An Amnesty International report exposes the "cold-blooded killing of thousands of defenseless prisoners" in a Syrian regime detention center.
