V good piece by Caitlin Chiaramonte and @legalleadtheway.bsky.social on challenges for prosecutors in the big Afghanistan war crimes trial in Aus.
Similar to what might be faced in UK after completion of Afghanistan Inquiry into alleged unlawful killings.
#HaddonCave
Can radical change solve some of today’s most intractable problems?
V good ep of Start the Week yesterday featuring Nerve contributing writer @natashawalter.bsky.social
talking about her new book ‘Feminism for a World on Fire’
Host @tds153.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The White House knew and possibly drafted the contents of the Pakistani PM’’s statement detailing the terms of the ceasefire.
They included Lebanon.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/w...
8 April statement by EU countries, UK, Canada & Japan
New statement by EU countries, UK, Canada & Japan welcomes ceasefire, incl. #Lebanon. Meanwhile Israel has launched at least 100 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing scores of civilians, and Beirut hospitals appeal for blood donations.
"The [Office of the Special Investigator] has been tasked with investigating literally dozens of murders” in Afghanistan.
This is first person charged.
In an earlier civil case, “a Federal Court judge found that Roberts-Smith had taken part in at least four murders...”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That’s not a heist, that’s repossession
We’re told we must accept much higher civilian casualties in large-scale combat operations.
But what if that is based on a false assumption?
My latest for @articlesofwar.bsky.social
lieber.westpoint.edu/challenging-...
We’re told we must accept much higher civilian casualties in large-scale combat operations.
But what if that is based on a false assumption?
My latest for @articlesofwar.bsky.social
lieber.westpoint.edu/challenging-...
The number of civilians directly killed in this war already stands at over 1,500 but the full toll of civilian harm is far greater and deeper.
The case will be supported by evidence gathered by French and German prosecutors who charged Jamil Hassan, former head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence. European prosecutors cooperate with each other, and with the UN Intl Indep Impartial Mech for Syria - IIIM. (Hassan is believed to be in Russia).
NEW: Arrest in London of former Syrian Air Force intelligence officer. For years the Syria work of the War Crimes Unit at Counter Terrorism Command (Met Police) has focused on 'structural investigations', but this apparently follows tip off by Syrians in London. #UJ 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When I was crossing the Bekaa valley last month, a shopkeeper proudly told me that “half the restaurants in New York serve wine from the Bekaa” (he wouldn’t be far wrong).
General Sir Richard Shirreff: "if Britain is involved, our hand is in the mangle... we should not in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans closely because they are being led by a couple of gung ho nutters without a proper strategy..."
After that, he let's rip.
British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor?
Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...
“The United States, Israel, and Iran, have each violated international law. The United Kingdom appears poised to join them.”
www.justsecurity.org/132894/us-is...
Great thread on the wonderful Yanar Mohammed ⬇️
Yanar Mohammed writing for Chatham House
Devastated to learn that the great Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated today by 'unknown' gunmen in Baghdad.
Here in her own words:
The only certainty in the war between US/Israel and Iran is mass civilian harm
www.ceasefire.org/mass-civilia...
U.K., France, Germany statement just out.
The “we are not joining these strikes” line is crumbling fast…
inside the ‘triple black box’
As Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, the immense civilian toll continues to grow.
Writing for our blog, Ukrainian artist and activist Anna Moskalets shares how these four years have altered her life, her art, and her understanding of resistance.
"The body of evidence we collected ... leaves only one reasonable inference," said UN expert Mona Rishmawi. "The RSF acted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Zaghawa and Fur communities in El-Fasher. These are the hallmarks of genocide."
reliefweb.int/node/4199260
Bound to be good!
Assassinating Justice in Libya
My latest piece for @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social
Read it here 👇🏽
www.ceasefire.org/assassinatin...
I sat in on the Defence Committee last week as former ministers were questioned about the MoD's Afghan data breach.
In my latest blog post for @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social, I consider what the data breach and superinjunction reveal about the culture inside the MoD and what needs to change.
Large pro-Kurdish demo outside U.K. Parliament just now. There’s a lot of concern that what happened in Suwayda is now unfolding in NE Syria.
Indeed
www.state.gov/u-s-support-...
