Around 153 BCE, Cato the Elder, one of Rome’s most prominent senators, began ending every single one of his speeches with the same words: “Carthago delenda est”, or “Carthage must be destroyed”. His ...

President Donald Trump spent the Easter weekend issuing a belligerent stream of threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure. He set a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday night for the ...

Rohingya activists and legal advocacy groups have filed a criminal case against the head of Myanmar’s military junta in Indonesia, accusing him of acts of genocide against the Rohingya minority group.

The breakup of states in the Middle East is often accompanied by waves of ethnic or sectarian violence. As the Iran War enters its sixth week, the world’s attention is understandably centered on the ...

The ubiquitous and outrageous lie that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza has been further debunked, inadvertently, by Hamas itself. The Israelis have prosecuted an aggressive yet defensive war ...

It’s not just Gaza—Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians, everywhere. We are one people being destroyed as one people. Family members and relatives mourn the loss of two brothers who were ...

The United States has defended Israel against the charge of genocide in the United Nations’ highest court, as Iceland and the Netherlands gave different opinions. South Africa brought a genocide case ...

David J. Scheffer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations with a focus on international law and international criminal justice. He was the lead U.S. negotiator for four war crimes ...

Two European nations have formally stepped into a major international legal dispute involving allegations of genocide in Gaza. The Netherlands and Iceland have submitted declarations to the ...

Presiding Judge Yuji Iwasawa, third from right, starts reading the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on what Israel must do to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United States will intervene in the genocide case against Israel brought at the ...

I was born in the southern Nigeria city of Lagos, and our family later moved to the eastern part of the country a few months before a bloody civil war began in earnest. Despite the conflict, strong ...