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GENOCIDE

Children sit together near destroyed and heavily-damaged buildings at the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Friday.
WORLD
Jun 23, 2026
Israel targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, U.N. inquiry reports
The U.N. commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately killed during the war, including after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025.
General view taken at the start of the first hearing at the International Court of Justice in which Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the country¡¯s Muslim minority, the Rohingya, in The Hague on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 14, 2026
ICJ hears gruesome violence against Rohingya in Myanmar genocide case
The accusations say that Myanmar soldiers rampaged door-to-door, systematically killing, raping and burning Rohingya men, women and children.
Rohingya refugees cross the border into Bangladesh in 2017. The charge that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslims went before the World Court on Monday, for three weeks of argument and testimony, in the first case of its kind, with implications for other genocide cases like the one pending against Israel.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2026
Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia?says in genocide case
Gambia, a predominantly Muslim West African country, filed the case at the International Court of Justice?in ?2019, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya.
Rohingya refugees wait outside a distribution center after collecting relief materials at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangledesh, on Dec. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
In grim camps, Rohingya hope U.N. genocide hearing can bring justice
Hope is a fragile but persistent force in Bangladesh¡¯s Rohingya camps of Cox¡¯s Bazar, where more than a million refugees forced to flee Myanmar live in squalid conditions.
A Sudanese woman walks past graves of people killed during clashes in Omdurman, Sudan on March 20.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2025
Scramble for Sudan¡¯s resources fuels brutal civil war
The conflict between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has escalated in recent weeks with the RSF¡¯s capture of the major city of El-Fasher in Darfur.
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
WORLD
Nov 7, 2025
New satellite images suggest ¡®mass graves¡¯ in Sudan¡¯s El-Fasher
In its Thursday report, Yale University¡¯s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) said it found evidence consistent with ¡°body disposal activities.¡±
Sudanese Rapid Support Forces reportedly detain a fighter known as Abu Lulu (left) in al-Fashir, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region in this image released Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 1, 2025
Hundreds said shot or disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries
Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir over the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (right) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Thursday. Erdogan criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel¡¯s ¡°genocide¡± and attacks in the Gaza Strip at the news conference.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025
Turkey¡¯s Erdogan to Merz: Does Germany not see Israeli ¡®genocide¡¯ in Gaza?
The Turkish president criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance at a joint news conference with the German chancellor.
Israel's players pose for a team photo before a match against Moldova in Chisinau, Moldova, on Sept. 5.
SOCCER
Sep 26, 2025
UEFA poised for vote on whether to suspend Israel from European competition
The brewing crisis intensified this week when United Nations experts called for Israel¡¯s suspension from international soccer.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli soldiers carrying out operations in Rafah, in the southern Gaza, in July 2024.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2025
Netanyahu¡¯s impunity threatens Israel
In an especially damning survey, the Pew Research Center earlier this year found that there was no majority positive view of Israel in any of the 24 countries it surveyed.
Smoke rises from Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025
Israel unleashes massive ground assault on Gaza City
A U.N. commission accused Israel of committing ¡°genocide¡± in the Palestinian territory, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials had incited the crime.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a joint news conference in Jerusalem on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025
Rubio backs Israel in goal to eradicate Hamas as diplomacy falters
The top U.S. diplomat¡¯s support for Israel¡¯s new offensive on Gaza City has cast doubt on whether diplomacy would work to end nearly two years of war.
A boy mourns his father, who was killed in a strike in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on May 15. Israel's military action in Gaza has killed about 63,000 people.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2025
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars¡¯ association says
Israel¡¯s Foreign Ministry called the statement disgraceful and ¡°entirely based on Hamas¡¯ campaign of lies.¡±
Mourners react during a funeral for Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, on Thursday. Israel has previously rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, citing its right to self-defense.
WORLD
Aug 29, 2025
Hundreds of U.N. staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide, letter shows
The letter stated the staff consider the legal criteria for genocide in the war in the Gaza Strip have been met, citing the scale, scope and nature of violations documented there.
Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 31, 2025
Israeli rights groups break taboo with accusations of genocide
The charge of genocide is deeply sensitive in Israel because of its origins in the work of Jewish legal scholars in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust.
An Israeli APC seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 24, 2025
Brazil prepares to join South Africa¡¯s Gaza genocide case against Israel at ICJ
South Africa filed the case in 2023 asking the ICJ to declare that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
AI-created images of Holocaust-related subjects displayed on a laptop and a smartphone screens
WORLD / Society
Jul 15, 2025
Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm
Critics say that AI-generated images, text and videos are offensive and contribute to Holocaust distortion by conjuring up a ¡°fantasy-land Auschwitz.¡±
A Cambodian guide (left) gives an explanation about the exhibit as tourists look at portrait photos of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2025
Cambodia marks UNESCO recognition of Khmer Rouge sites as places of ¡®peace and reflection¡¯
The Khmer Rouge sites mark Cambodia¡¯s fifth World Heritage listing, and is the country¡¯s first modern-era nomination and among the first globally tied to recent conflict.
Palestinian girls look at the rubble after Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 29, 2025
Amnesty accuses Israel of ¡®live-streamed genocide¡¯ in Gaza
In its annual report, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with ¡°specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide.¡±
Mean Loeuy (center), a survivor of a Khmer Rouge labor camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach program at a school in Phnom Srok district in Banteay Meanchey province.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2025
Lessons in horror with Cambodia¡¯s Khmer Rouge tribunal
A team led by a lawyer is traveling around Cambodia teaching schoolchildren about Pol Pot¡¯s brutal regime, sharing 20 years¡¯ worth of evidence and testimony from victims.

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