By Martin Chulov* – The Guardian
Mahsa Amini’s death in custody is fast becoming another moment of reckoning for the Iranian regime that fears a popular revolt more than it fears staring down the rest of the world.
Four days after...
by Ambra Visentin
Over the past five years, European countries have almost doubled their arms imports and their dependence on US suppliers is at an all-time high. At the same time, the volume of arms transfers in the world has...
by Angelo Maddalena*
Starting this Monday, for a month, we will be publishing a three-part report from Syria: the first on the author’s journey, the second on what the Free Syrian Army was and is today. The third, finally, is...
By Ambra Visentin
One month into 2024, we are already seeing the results of some major elections, the first of a very long series in a record year: no fewer than 76 Countries are going to the polls, representing 51%...
by Angelo Maddalena*
The story that began two weeks ago with the author’s journey and what the Free Syrian Army was and is today, ends with the inspirations that come from the Catholic-Syriac monastic community of Saint Moses the Abyssinian,...
By Antonio Donini
Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
By Camilla Ballerini
The organization "Open Society Foundations" in 2021 published a new report "A Passage to Justice - Selected Yemeni civil society views for transitional justice and long-term accountability in Yemen". The report is based on interviews with Yemeni...
by Ivo Daalder * - Politico, OtherNews
When United States President Joe Biden decided to travel to Israel this week, his immediate objective was to express solidarity with Israel, to avoid escalating the war beyond Gaza and to ask tough...
By Ambra Visentin
Patrick Kroker is a lawyer at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), where he leads work on human rights violations in Syria. He was counsel of the co-plaintiffs in the Al-Khatib trial against Anwar...
By Alice Pistolesi
The suffering of the Syrian population continues unabated. On Wednesday 9 March, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, described the impact of the 11-year conflict on communities as "devastating" at a...
