South Asia
India PM facing human rights suit in US
Survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms filed a class action lawsuit against India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a US district court under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
Tag: genocide
The Andes
Peru: massacre victims exhumed in Ayacucho
Investigators exhumed 21 bodies at a remote hamlet in Peru's Andes—believed to be those of peasants massacred on suspicion of being guerilla collaborators in 1984.
Africa
ICC opens new Central African Republic inquiry
Following a preliminary examination, the International Criminal Court prosecutor has opened a formal inquiry into ongoing probable war crimes in the Central African Republic.
Iraq
ISIS destroys Armenian genocide memorial church
ISIS militants destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor, the Syrian site known as the "Auschwitz of the Armenian Genocide."
Iraq
ISIS: will US intervention fuel sectarian war?
If Washington is perceived as leading an alliance that includes Iran and Hezbollah, this will augment the propaganda assistance loaned to ISIS with every US missile that falls.
Iraq
Obama sees long war against ISIS
The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a campaign against ISIS that may take three years to complete, involving a coalition of some 40 countries.
South Asia
India: Qaeda sees fertile ground for sectarian war
Ayman al-Zawahri's announcement of "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" comes amid growing attacks on Muslims in Northeast India as well as Burma and Bangladesh.
Iraq
ISIS accused of ‘ethnic cleansing on historic scale’
Evidence uncovered by Amnesty International indicates that ISIS has launched a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Iraq, targeting Yazidis and other minorities.
Iraq
ISIS massacres 700 Turkmen: report
ISIS fighters massacred 700 Turkmen civilians—including women, children and the elderly—in a northern Iraqi village last month, a UNICEF official reports.
Iraq
Iraq: Yazidis resist ISIS; Turkmen threatened
A Yazidi militia is fighting alongside Peshmerga to re-take Sinjar from ISIS, while the UN's Iraq envoy warned of an imminent massacre of Turkmen at ISIS-besieged Amerli.
Greater Middle East
One year later, Syrians recall chemical massacre
Opposition activists say they have confirmed 27 cases of chemical gas use in Syria since the UN passed UNSCR 2118, calling for destruction of all chemical weapons in the country.
Iraq
Iraq: Shi’ite militia blamed in mosque massacre
Up to 70 were massacred during prayers at a Sunni mosque in Iraq's Diyala governorate—apparently by a Shi'ite militia seeking retribution for a bomb attack on their forces.