The leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed was killed in a strike aimed at IS' headquarters along side other IS fighters, the Pengton said on Friday.
Human Rights watch on Thursday warned of war crimes being committed by Iraqi forces against families of ISIS fighters following the recapture of Mosul this week.
The New York based rights organisation accused state forces of foricbly moving over 170 families of ISIS fighters, who mainly comprise women and children, into 'rehabilitation camps' which lack basic necessities as a form of "collective punishment".
A Serbian appeals court on Thursday halted a landmark trial against eight former Bosnian Serb police officers charged with taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, reports abc news.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir announced that all negotiations with the United States will be frozen in response to a US decree that postponed a permanent decision on lifting sanctions by 3 months.
Commenting on the US decision to delay the lifting of sanctions, a senior state department official said,
The United States called on Myanmar's government to allow a UN Human Rights Council established fact-finding mission into the country to investigate war crimes against the Rohingya population.
Last month, a Myanmar official said the country would not permit entry to UN investigators, Reuters reported.
On Monday the prime minister of Iraq declared victory of Islamic State in Mosul, after over three years of IS rule in the city.
The victory which has been welcomed across the world has however, received criticism from human rights organisations who have accused Iraqi and US led forces of violating international humanitarian law.
China and Britain must seek common ground while shelving differences Chinse President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Theresa on the side-lines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.
Israel cut its funding to the UN this week after UNESCO designated that a shrine in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank was a "Palestinian World Heritage Site in Danger".
Slamming the move as "another delusional UNESCO decision", the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, instructed that $1 million be cut from UN funding and instead by used to build a museum examining Jewish heritage in Hebron.
Iraq’s Kurdish leader said on Thursday that there was no turning back on a bid to achieve an independent Kurdish state, reports Reuters.
The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani told Reuters that the timetable for independence after a vote in September “was flexible but not open-ended.”
A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday convicted seven soldiers for shooting people at close range who they accused of being militia members.
The massacre was filmed in a video that was broadcast widely earlier this year, clearly depicting the soldiers shooting people, including young women at very close range.
A former Serbian soldier accused of war crimes due to his alleged involvement in a massacre of over 100 Kosovo Albanians, has died before the conclusion of his trial in Belgrade.
Milojko Nikolic, one of the men on trial for allegedly murdering over 100 ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovo villages of Cuska, Ljubenic, Pavlan and Zahac during the spring of 1999, died on Wednesday in Belgrade.
The Palestinian Authority expressed concern over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision not to meet President Mahmoud Abbas during his trip to Israel.
Modi was welcomed by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a 3 day visit to Israel.
Speaking to Aljazeera, Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister Tasir Jaradat, said,
The Dutch foreign ministry confirmed that those suspected of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine will be tried under Dutch law.
The decision follows attempts by Russia to block an international court form being set up over the incident.
Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said that the Dutch–led investigative team will continue to operate during the “prosecution phase.”
The United Nations Secretary-General has announced the appointment of a former French judge to lead a legal team in Geneva that will investigate evidence of war crimes being committed in Syria.
Catherine Marchi-Uhel was appointed by UN secretary general António Guterres to head the investigative body known as the “International Impartial and Independent Mechanism”.
