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Human Rights Watch on Friday urged authorities in Iran to lift its restrictions on internet and communication services, citing concerns that civilians will be left unable to access potentially lifesaving information in the midst of the widespread conflict between it and the US. Stressing the importance of allowing Iranians to have access to internet, Tomiwa [...]

The UN Human Rights Council’s Syria Commission of Inquiry (COI) announced on Friday that it has completed an in-country mission to Damascus as it prepares to brief the Council in Geneva on March 13. The Commission said it pressed Syria’s transitional authorities on accountability, institutional reform, and protections for civil society amid renewed regional volatility. [...]

A group of UN experts warned Friday that the genocide in Gaza is spilling into the West Bank as a wider war engulfs the region. The experts argued that Israeli policy is designed to coerce Palestinians to leave both territories. The report also covered occupied East Jerusalem, where between 2021 and 2025 there have been [...]

The most striking aspect of the Trump administration’s legal argument for the attack on Iran is that, in practical terms, it simply does not exist. When President Donald Trump announced that the United States was “at war,” he claimed the strikes were intended to eliminate “imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” yet offered no evidence [...]

The US Senate turned down a War Powers Resolution (WPR) in a 47-53 vote on Wednesday, declining to impose limits on President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war with Iran. If it had passed, the resolution would have required President Trump to seek congressional approval prior to any continued military action. The vote mostly fell [...]

Good faith, a form of honesty, is the lifeblood that flows through contracts, treaties and negotiations, leading to bargains, ceasefires, and the end of wars. Good faith presupposes sincerity of purpose. When parties come to the table to resolve a conflict, they assume that each side genuinely seeks a resolution. The demands may be excessive, [...]

The United Nations on Tuesday urgently called for civilian protection amid growing violence and instability in the Middle East—and particularly in regard to the ongoing US and Israeli military operations against Iran. The UN urged a thorough investigation into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, and requested the disclosure of all relevant [...]

At first glance, neither the June 2025 operation against Iran nor the follow-on attacks of late February 2026 carried any real risks of a nuclear conflict. Allegedly, in those large-scale military actions, cooperative efforts by Israel and the United States were launched to prevent Iranian nuclearization. Still, in any future armed conflict against the Islamic [...]

The modern international order rests on a foundational promise: states must resolve disputes peacefully, and force may be used only as a last resort and only within the bounds of law. The US helped build this system after World War II, embedding these principles in the UN Charter and in its own Constitution. Yet the [...]

Pakistan’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that the country now considers itself in an “open war” with Afghanistan after the two countries carried out cross-border strikes Thursday night. Pakistan launched overnight airstrikes on targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Paktika hours after Afghan Taliban forces attacked Pakistani military posts along the border. Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad [...]