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28 Nov

...the accuracy and quantity of information given during witness testimony. Second, within the national context, investigators typically access the crime scenes promptly and, where possible, collect witness statements. However, if any international criminal tribunals investigate ongoing or recent conflicts, access could be restricted due to serious safety concerns. In such cases, OSINT offers a valid alternative because it would not be necessary to physically enter the territory of a country to gather evidence. The situation in Syria is a clear example of this. Although Syria closed its borders to international...
28.11.25 | |

29 Feb

...p.m. ET). Guns mostly fell silent in Syria and Russian air raids stopped on Saturday, the first day of a cessation of hostilities that the United Nations has described as the best hope for peace in five years of civil war, but the Syrian opposition warned on Sunday that attacks by the army, backed by Russian warplanes, threatened a U.S.-Russian deal for a cessation of hostilities with collapse and endangered future peace talks. The Arab coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has denied targeting civilians after air strikes hit a...
29.02.16 | |

16 Mar

...in a pre-recorded documentary. Americas Nearly 100,000 members of the Venezuelan armed forces have begun conducting exercises across the Latin American country amid worsening relations with the US. The United States and coalition partners carried out seven air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and four in Syria since Saturday, the U.S. military said. The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and explore ways to pressure him into agreeing to talks, US Secretary of State John Kerry has...
16.03.15 | |

10 Jan

...posed to illustrate the problem and I ask my students is whether Syria has the right to use force today to retake the Golan Heights which were captured by Israel in 1967. Its now 40 years after the event. Some might argue that given the passage of time Syria is bound to use diplomatic means. Syria might argue that the passage of time shows diplomacy has not and will not work and that it has no other means of retaking this territory thus demonstrating that the use of force is...
10.01.07 | |

09 Mar

ties and a person’s duration of residence in a country) that have led the HRC to apply Art. 12(4) to individuals in subsequent decisions (see Nystorm v Australia and Warsame v Canada). Other interpretations of Art. 12(4) also point to the importance of a country facilitating the re-entry of its citizens who have travelled abroad – specific concerns have been raised, for instance, in the context of the Syrian Government’s failure to issue passports to some Syrian citizens abroad, effectively barring them from re-entering Syria (see Concluding Observations of the...
09.03.21 | |

01 Mar

...Kingdom (“UK”) when authorities arrested a young mother with her small son for attempting to return from living in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria. Before that, in 2017, German authorities fought to stop Iraqi authorities from executing a 16-year-old ISIS recruit who was “groomed online,” joined the terrorist organization, and then imprisoned in Iraq (the effort to prevent the death penalty worked, and in February 2019, she was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment in Iraq). In December 2017, the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”) adopted Security Resolution 2396 on national security...
01.03.19 | |

07 Mar

...southern Somalia. Middle East and Northern Africa At least nine civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded after mortar rounds and rockets were fired on a mainly Kurdish residential quarter in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Kurdish YPG group. February marked the highest number of home demolitions in the occupied West Bank since the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) began recording in 2009, according to a recent statement. Libyan forces based in the city of Misrata have carried out air strikes...
07.03.16 | |

26 Sep

Two explosions have occurred near Syrian military headquarters in Damascus. Hours before these two explosions, a Qatari emir said that Arabs must intervene in Syria in the absence of Security Council action. Foreign Policy offers an insight into a report about the torture tactics used by the government of Syria and their effects on children–sometimes with the children being the victims of the torture themselves. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, the Chinese and Japanese Foreign Ministers have held a meeting over the disputed...
26.09.12 | |

17 May

here. Kevin added the Security Council’s refusal to pay for any expenses related to an ICC investigation in Syria as another reason to be skeptical about the likelihood of a referral. More on Syria in a two-part guest post by Naz Modirzadeh who responded to the open letter to the UN on humanitarian access to Syria. Deborah shared her opinion on the Al Nashiri case and the question whether an armed conflict existed. In another guest post, Ezequiel Heffes offered four arguments why international humanitarian law covers detention in non-international...
17.05.14 | |

31 Aug

of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsy’s decorum on the world stage in light of how he presented himself at the recent Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran. One example of this was calling for intervention in Syria saying that the “oppressive regime” in place there must go. At Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten offers an analysis of Assad supporters in Syria calling to allow the ICC to investigate the situation in the war-torn country. Julian Assange gave a speech yesterday in which he said he sees six months up to a year...
31.08.12 | |

25 May

...to make. The good news is that in the past fifteen years the secondary boycott against Israel has died a quiet death. According to official reports from the United States, of the twenty-two members of the Arab League, only three countries–Iraq, Libya, and Syria–continue to enforce a secondary boycott. Even then, it appears that only Syria is serious about it. USTR has recently stated that the secondary boycott “has extremely limited practical effect overall on U.S. trade and investment ties with most Arab League countries.” As a practical matter, we...
25.05.10 | |

09 Jul

Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre re-enacted their escape in Bosnia this weekend ahead of Ratko Mladic’s trial, which resumed today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Tomorrow, the International Criminal Court will deliver the sentence and reparations order for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, convicted March 14, 2012 of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers and using them to participate in hostilities. Reuters offers an analysis showing that the crisis in Syria reflects the limitations of Turkish power. Additionally in Syria news, amid President Al-Assad leveling...
09.07.12 | |