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U.N. Security Council condemns east DRC rebel attacks. AU urges Ansar Dine to break with Al Qaida. Syria rebels take battle to capital’s streets. Intense fighting rocks Syria’s capital, fueling...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 7 September 2012
Talks ‘radically impossible’ with Mali’s jihadists. Mali rules out deployment of foreign troops in combat. China forces return of Kachin to Burma: HRW reports. Somalia: Al-Shabaab attacks African Union...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 3 October 2012
Syria bomb blast kills Hezbollah operative. Syria berates Hamas chief, an Old Ally, on State TV. Mali Islamists kill man by firing squad in Timbuktu. Clashes near Libya’s Bani Walid kill 1. Ivory Coast...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 14 December 2012
Assad fires scud missiles in new efforts to force back rebels. Assad losing war against rebels, Russia admits. Hamas states first West Bank rally in five years. African Union condemns armed attacks...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 24 January 2013
UN launches inquiry into drones. Serbs and Albanians clash over removal of insurgent memorial. Watching Syria’s war: Rebels taunt and beat a pro-government prisoner. African Union Leaders summit to...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 25 January 2013
Arm Syrian rebels to contain extremists, says Saudi royal. UN ‘ finalising’ peace agreement in DRC. US Treasury expands sanctions on M23 leadership. EJIL: Talk! – French Military Intervention in...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 28 January 2013
French jets destroy home of leader Ansar Dine Airstrikes reportedly kill 11 civilians as French forces in northern Mali take control of Gao airport French-led forces clear Timbuktu Palestinian deaths...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 6 February 2013
Syria: the former English teacher turned Aleppo’s female sniper ‘Guevara’. Syria: opposition suggests talks with vice-president. LRA rebel group losing men through defections. Top rebel arrested in...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 22 March 2013
U.S. labels Mali rebel group Ansar al-Dine a terrorist organization Chad rebel group UFR to resume fighting Initial appearance Ntaganda at ICC will take place on Tuesday 26 March More rebels seek...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 17 October 2013
Syrian opposition under pressure to attend Geneva peace conference. International Crisis Group Report: Anything but politics: the state of Syria’s political opposition (see here for executive summary...
View ArticleNews Roundup – 17 November 2014
Colombian peacetalks on hold after general is snatched. OHCHR: Rule of Terror: Living under ISIS in Syria. ICRC’s president seeks broader humanitarian role for the organisation in Syria. Islamic...
View ArticleAhmad Al Mahdi Al Faqi surrendered to ICC for war crimes against mausoleums...
Today, Ahmad Al Mahdi Al Faqi (Abu Tourab), was surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the authorities of Niger and arrived at the Court’s Detention Centre in the Netherlands. Mr Al...
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