The International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded its third visit to Libya on Wednesday to investigate the crimes committed in the country by the militia of General Khalifa Haftar....
The ICC has rejected calls by exiled Uyghur Muslims to investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq, even though she found...
Leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, said if local investigations into the Beirut Port explosion does not lead to clear and convincing results, he will resort to...
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Interviews
November 26, 2020 |
Hassina Mechaï Interview with Christophe Oberlin by Hassina Mechaï
The Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned on Wednesday the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus,...
Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and other suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and genocide in Darfur must face justice without further delay, the...
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Article
October 8, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud 'International law' remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the...
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Article
September 24, 2020 |
Khalil Charles Just how Sudan will be able to convict former President Omar Al-Bashir and 27 defendants for staging the 1989 coup remains a major issue of contention. Not merely in...
Some 84 per cent of Canadians want a war crimes probe into Israel, a new poll surveying views over several issues, including a potential International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation...
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Article
September 12, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, over her investigation into whether American forces committed war...
Palestinian-American lawyer Akram Abusharar has filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Libyan retired General Khalifa Haftar for committing war crimes in Libya. Abusharar aims to...
A former senior British diplomat is revealed to have been involved in a plan to improve the image of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar after it was proven that he...
Libya's Toubou tribes yesterday filed a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against renegade General Khalifa Haftar over last year's massacre in the city of Murzuq. In a...
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Article
July 29, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...
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Blog
July 21, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi The International Criminal Court (ICC) has adjourned without issuing its ruling on whether Israeli officials will be tried for war crimes against the Palestinian people since 2014, when Gaza...
Israeli Army Radio yesterday claimed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had adjourned taking a decision on its jurisdiction over investigating possible Israeli war crimes due to Tel Aviv postponing its...
Popular Conference of Palestinians Abroad said yesterday that International Criminal Court (ICC) is facing a "real and historic" test to prosecute leaders of the Israeli occupation and achieve justice for Palestinians, Quds...
The Israeli government breathed a sigh of relief after a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to adjourn without opening an investigation against Tel Aviv over possible war...
The list was supposed to be kept secret due to the danger it could pose to the officials whose names it contains
The economies of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will shrink by 7.6 per cent this year following the coronavirus outbreak, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced yesterday....
The court has been asked to investigate senior Israeli and US officials, including Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mike Pompeo and Jared Kushner.
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Interviews
In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...
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Article
June 24, 2020 |
Tasnim Nazeer The Trump administration in Washington has attempted repeatedly to block investigations by the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) in Afghanistan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These investigations are...
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Article
June 20, 2020 |
Mohammad Jamel At the General Assembly's 67th session held on 29 November 2012, and with the vote of 138 countries, a resolution accepting Palestine as a non-member observer state of the...
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Article
June 18, 2020 |
Dr Youssef Rizqa Politics is defined as the art of diplomatic engagement with others. This is a nice and good definition, but it is definitely not an accurate definition of American foreign...
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US A Sudanese man suspected by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing war crimes described the accusations mentioned in his arrest warrant as "baseless" yesterday. During his first appearance...
A spokesman for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague said that the trial of Sudanese Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, will...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed US President Donald Trump for imposing economic sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, Israeli media reported. Trump last week authorised new sanctions against...
The UN human rights office said Friday it regrets a set of sanctions authorised by the administration of US President Donald Trump against International Criminal Court (ICC) officials who...
Over a hundred jurists and law scholars from around the world, including scores from Israel, have said Israel's plans to annex the occupied West Bank would "constitute a flagrant...