On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to provide you with the following information: – In July 2025, more than 300 Congolese civilians were killed in several localities in Rutshuru territory, North Kivu Province, following attacks carried out by the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23), in flagrant violation of the ceasefire reaffirmed in…
Voltaire Network | Berlin (Germany) | 22 August 2025 With reference to previous meetings and communications on the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Security Council, Germany would like to provide the following information regarding the investigation into the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. In Germany, the Federal Public…
Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa offensive last year. The siege took place between June and October 2017—right after Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis announced the…
LONDON — Last year’s Washington-led coalition effort against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in the Syrian city of Raqqa included numerous “disproportionate or indiscriminate” attacks on the city, showing little regard for civilian lives and constituting potential war crimes, a new report by Amnesty International stated Tuesday. The campaign to seize Raqqa spanned June to…
News stories are full of quotes painting the situation as nearly unprecedented in its horror: “hell on earth,” “never seen anything like this,” “one of the worst attacks in Syrian history,” and “flagrant war crime” on an “epic scale.” A New York Times editorial, calling the battle “one of the most violent episodes of the seven-year war,” demands that Syrian President…
On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to provide you with the following information: – In July 2025, more than 300 Congolese civilians were killed in several localities in Rutshuru territory, North Kivu Province, following attacks carried out by the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23), in flagrant violation of the ceasefire reaffirmed in…
Voltaire Network | Berlin (Germany) | 22 August 2025 With reference to previous meetings and communications on the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Security Council, Germany would like to provide the following information regarding the investigation into the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. In Germany, the Federal Public…
The author of this article, dated Aug. 25, 2025, is a Venezuelan consultant and international analyst and is the former Director of International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Translation: John Catalinotto It was many years ago that I decided to neither read nor listen to the enemy’s media. During the…
Susan Albulhawa — renowned Palestinian author of “Mornings in Jenin” (2006) and “Against the Loveless World” (2019) — gave the following remarks during an Aug. 23 webinar on “Mobilizing a military intervention to stop the genocide in Gaza.” I want to talk about the psychology of the moment we’re in. I’m going to blow through…