On a sunny day here, there are chirping birds and not-so-distant echoes of bombs and rockets on dropping on civilian…
The UK police has used universal jurisdiction law to arrest Nepalese army colonel Kumar Lama in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The colonel has been accused of torturing during the decade-long (1996-2006) civil war in Nepal.
Armed opposition groups fighting in Syria are using children for combat and other military purposes, with children as young as 14 serving in at least three opposition brigades, transporting weapons and supplies and acting as lookouts, and children as young as 16 have carrying arms and taking combat roles against government forces.
Robert King went into Syria to embed with the ragtag troops of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, right in the heart of a conflict that is ripping Syria apart. He returned with footage that has made us very scared and very sad for the future of the country.
Among the many Syrian cities and towns making news headlines today is Homs, a city which dates back to 2300BC. The colossal damage months of shelling has done can be seen in the destruction of historic buildings and architecture, hundreds of thousands of refugees and thousands of martyrs.