Bashar Abdo had just returned home last month after four years in the Syrian military when a mob of neighbors and others armed with guns and knives swarmed his family’s front door and accused him of being a thug for the ousted regime. His sisters and sister-in-law tried to block the crowd as he hid….
There seem to be no limits to the dark revelations laid bare by the downfall of Syria’s 54-year Assad regime. Prisons have emptied, exposing the instruments of torture used on peaceful protesters and others considered opponents of the government. Stacks of official documents record thousands of detainees. Morgues and mass graves hold the gaunt, broken-bodied…
An Israeli reservist left Brazil in a hurry this week after a Brazilian judge ordered an investigation into whether he committed war crimes in Gaza. Israeli consular officials helped the soldier, Yuval Vagdani, fly out of the country on Sunday after the order became public. It was prompted by a criminal complaint filed by a…
[EXPLOSION] “The people are running away from the bombing. People are dying. We just send this to the nation to see what is happening in Nuba Mountains.” [GUNSHOTS] “Yeah.” Sudan is in the grip of a brutal civil war. Eleven million people have been driven from their homes, and tens of thousands have been killed….
Californians accused of certain drug and retail theft crimes may already be facing stiffer penalties under an initiative voters passed this year, alongside related bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. Voters this November overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which both modifies and adds key changes to California law. That includes prosecutors being able to charge…
A head football coach at a Las Vegas school has been accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with a student under the age of 16, child pornography and other sex-related offences. The 45-year football coach and campus security monitor worked at Valley High School in Las Vegas. The teacher, identified as Antwone Washington, was…
Hours after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Israeli Prime Minister hit back at the court in The Hague, an ‘antisemitic decision’. In a video message shared by him on his official X handle, Netanyahu said “The antisemitic (anti-Jews) decision of…