War Crimes
Confessions of a Barrel Bomber
After Assad’s fall, a Syrian air force colonel fled to Baghdad with multiple forged identities, waiting for a smuggler’s route to Moscow. In testimony to New Lines, he describes his career flying helicopters loaded with barrel bombs and how the crude weapons were conceived, manufactured and unleashed on Syria’s cities.
Israeli Media Reacts to the ICC
While Israel’s establishment media is generally critical of Netanyahu, it was unified in rejecting the charges in the ICC’s arrest warrants for the prime minister and Yoav Gallant, the former minister of defense.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine Reveals a Network of Russian Torture Chambers
Proof of the horrors local residents were subjected to during more than six months of occupation was revealed on Sept. 19 in a dark and dust-filled basement under the police station in Izium, a strategic city in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region that was liberated in its latest offensive. Among the instruments used to terrorize people were Soviet-era gas masks that had been modified to prevent the victim from being able to breathe once it was placed on the face.
In Mosul, There’s a New War Against Mines
More than four years on, the Islamic State group has been forced from Mosul and no longer occupies towns or cities anywhere in Iraq or Syria. But its brutal legacy remains, under mounds of rubble, in ruined homes and fields.
The ISIS War Crime Iraqi Turkmen Won’t Talk About
Media attention of the crimes of ISIS have focused on attacks against Iraq’s Yazidi minority group. But another minority group, the Turkmen, also suffered terrible violence, and only now, slowly, is the embattled community piecing together its own story.