Chemical Weapons Convention disregarded with impunity
The official dismantling of Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons began in October 2013, the result of painstaking negotiations. Under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a UN, body the destruction of sarin and “ mustard gas begins: The then US President Barack Obama made his opinion on chemical weapons clear:“A […]
Air raids on mosque near Aleppo ‘kill dozens’
Dozens of people have been killed after fighter jets struck a mosque during prayer time in a rebel-held village in northern Syria, according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor tracking developments in Syria’s conflict, said Thursday’s air raids in al-Jina, southwest of Atarib near Aleppo, killed at least […]
US confirms Idlib air raid but denies targeting mosque
The US military says it carried out a deadly air strike on an al-Qaeda meeting in northern Syria and will investigate reports that more than 40 civilians were killed when a mosque was struck in the raid. The jets reportedly struck the village at the time of evening prayer so the mosque was full of […]
UN Rights Chief Urges Myanmar Leader to Ease Plight of Rohingya
The U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, is urging Myanmar’s leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to use her moral authority to ease the plight of the country’s disenfranchised Rohingya community. Aung San Suu Kyi has come under mounting criticism from the international community for her failure to speak out on […]
Hunt is on for a motive in Canada Mosque shooting
Police look for a motive Six killed, eight injured Condolences from around the world Police are searching for a motive after two gunmen opened fire on worshippers during Sunday night prayers at a mosque in Quebec. One suspect was identified as Alexandre Bissonnette, a French-Canadian, the other as Mohamed Khadir, who has a Moroccan background, […]
Quebec mosque attack: Social media tributes pour in
Soon after news broke that six Muslims had been killed in a shooting attack at a mosque in Canada’s Quebec City during evening prayers, people of all backgrounds took to social media to express their solidarity. Gunmen fired on about 50 people inside the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on Sunday at 8pm local time (01:00 […]
Death toll in Yemen conflict passes 10,000
The United Nations’ humanitarian aid official in Yemen has said that the civilian death toll in the nearly two-year conflict has reached 10,000, with 40,000 others wounded. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Jamie McGoldrick said that the figure is based on lists of victims gathered by health facilities and the actual number […]
Death From Above: U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan
This story was produced in collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Earlier this year, as the war between government forces and the Taliban continued, Muhammad Ikhlas, a farmer in the southern province of Helmand, crossed the front lines to visit his brother, a policeman whom the insurgent group had recently captured. After a short, […]
Rohingya face Myanmar ‘ethnic cleansing’: UN official
UNHCR chief accuses country’s troops of killing men and raping women, forcing stateless minority to flee to Bangladesh. Myanmar is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims, a UN official has said, as stories of gang rape, torture and murder emerge from among the thousands who have fled to Bangladesh. Up to 30,000 members of […]
Air strike hits children’s hospital in Syria’s Aleppo
An air strike has hit a children’s hospital in Syria’s eastern Aleppo, forcing its medical staff to evacuate their patients, including several newborn babies still in incubators. The moment of the attack on Friday was captured by an Al Jazeera crew, including journalist Amr al-Halabi, who was reporting about survivors of a previous Syrian government […]