Colombia’s military says 57 soldiers have been kidnapped by civilians in the country’s south-western Micay Canyon area. It says 31 soldiers were seized on Saturday while the rest were abducted on Sunday by a group of more than 200 people. The military says the civilians are acting under pressure from dissidents of the Farc rebel...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a military court under certain circumstances. A previous law permitting such trials was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in January. Before that ruling, civilians could be taken to a military tribunal if they had...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Four and a half months after his inauguration, Donald Trump is exercising his authoritarian chops, targeting immigrants in the state he most despises — California. Making good on Trump’s nativist pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...
Yogita Limaye reporting from the Donetsk region BBC Asked about a ceasefire, 26-year-old soldier Max told the BBC “you don’t think about things like that here.” Hours into the ceasefire Russia had called for, we drove into the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine to see what, if any, impact it was having. The Ukrainian military...
Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent Reporting fromNorthern Syria BBC General Security Forces personnel have been deployed in Latakia city One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority two months ago has told the BBC that he and other armed civilians who travelled to the area...
A trio of Democratic senators on Thursday demanded answers from embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth regarding U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, which have reportedly killed scores of civilians including numerous women and children since last month. “We write to you concerning reports that U.S. strikes against the Houthis at the Ras Isa fuel terminal in Yemen...
Akisa Wandera BBC News, Renk Hassan Lali / BBC When the devastating war in Sudan reached Sarah Williams’ neighbourhood in the capital Khartoum, she and her children were caught in the crossfire. Bullets tore through their home, fires engulfed buildings, and electricity lines sparked explosions. “We were crawling on the ground,” she recalls, holding her...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Israel’s recent brutal attack in Gaza resulted in the killing of predominantly women and children. It involved some of the most fatal attacks on Gaza that we have witnessed in 17 months. Given the degree to which the Israeli state formation has made clear...