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Victims of Iran’s 2022 crackdown file criminal complaint against 40 officials
ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor December 16, 2025

Claim filed in Argentina alleges crimes against humanity were carried out on Women, Life, Freedom protestersA group of victims of the Iranian government crackdown during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 have filed the first criminal complaint …

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‘Source of pride for Syria’: man who disarmed Bondi shooter lauded in home town
ByWilliam Christou and agencies December 16, 2025

News of Ahmed al-Ahmed’s selfless act quickly reached al-Nayrab, where locals say it proves religion or birthplace no barrier to heroismA man who risked his life to wrestle a gun from a shooter in the Bondi beach terror attack on Sunday has become a he…

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What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza
By December 16, 2025

Nour AbuShammala has returned to her partly destroyed apartment in Gaza City. This is her story of multiple displacements, injury and devastation over the last two yearsWhen 26-year-old Nour AbuShammala stepped back into her family’s apartment in Gaza …

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‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing
ByHannah Lynch in Iraq December 16, 2025

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banksAs a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing r…

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Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens
ByPatrick Wintour in Tripoli December 16, 2025

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in…

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Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’
ByWilliam Christou and Pjotr Sauer December 15, 2025

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive householdIn 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” Th…

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Welcome to our age of impunity – where the ICC prosecuting atrocities is a rare feat | Simon Tisdall
BySimon Tisdall December 14, 2025

The jailing of a Sudanese militia leader is an anomaly in a world where Putin, Netanyahu and yes, Hegseth, act without fear of international lawIt was a rare success for international courts struggling to resist a rising tide of official lawlessness. A…

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Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead
ByAssociated Press December 13, 2025

UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Gute…

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Three Americans killed in Syria by suspected Islamic State gunman, Pentagon says
ByAssociated Press December 13, 2025December 13, 2025

US Central Command reports an ambush on Saturday, the first attack to inflict US casualties since fall of Bashar al-AssadTwo US army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter have been killed and several other people wounded in an ambush on Saturd…

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Israel says its military killed Hamas commander Raed Saed in Gaza City strike
ByReuters December 13, 2025

If Saed is dead he would be most senior militant to be killed since October ceasefire, in attack on car that reportedly left four deadThe senior Hamas commander Raed Saedhas been killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City, the Israeli military said on Sa…

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