In a joint new investigation, two divisions of Radio Free Europe — the Ukraine-based Skhemy project and the Russian media Sistema — uncovered an illicit military recruitment scheme run by Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The military intelligence agency, it appears, is using a fictitious private military company, PMC Redut …

The desperate and heroic Occupied Palestinian breakout from the bombed and blockaded Gaza Concentration Camp has been associated with the deaths of over 1,500 Palestinian fighters and over 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilians. Serial war criminal and genocidal Apartheid Israel has responded with collective punishment of the 2.3 million barely subsisting …

Human Rights Watch on Thursday said it has confirmed reports that Israeli military forces unleashed white phosphorus munitions during artillery attacks on targets in Lebanon and Gaza this week, including over a heavily populated civilian area of the besieged Palestinian strip—an apparent war crime. HRW said it has interviewed witnesses …