by Ambra Visentin
It has been five years since Unitad, the UN Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), established at the request of Iraq, began its work. In...
by Ambra Visentin
Pressure is mounting in Iraqi Kurdistan from Turkey and Iran, with the support of the Baghdad Government. On Sunday 17 September, an alleged Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to an armed group affiliated to the Kurdistan...
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 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 Ambra Visentin
The war in Syria, now a 'low-intensity conflict', has regained strength on several fronts and entered a new phase. Fighting is taking place in the north, in areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in...
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
The suicide attack in the northwestern district of Bajaur on Sunday 30 July left at least 56 people dead and nearly 200 injured. This is yet another wound for a country that has long lived under the...
by Ambra Visentin
An international summit “to understand how to help the countries that migrants leave, and how to stop the trafficking and the traffickers”. These were the declared aims of the International Conference on Development and Migration held yesterday...
by Ambra Visentin
Seventy-five years have passed since the violent events of 1948, when two thirds of the Palestinian population were driven from their land and homes by Israeli forces. Since then, the violence has not stopped, but has increased...
by Alessandro De Pascale
At around midnight Turkish time on Monday 29 May, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 69, was confirmed as President of the Republic of Turkey by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK). He and his right-wing coalition won 52.16% of...
