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Syria’s dictator has fled the country: The Fall of Bashar Assad After 14 Years of War in Syria Brings to an End a Decades-long Dynasty (AP) Is one man responsible for the fall of Assad’s authoritarian regime … Who Is Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist Rebel Leading the Syrian Advance? (Washington Post) Outlaws on Pickup…

Amnesty International’s analysis Israeli atrocities and its “intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers … concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza” … ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza (Amnesty International) … and over “1,000 psychologists and neuroscientists from across the world…

“There are still no allegations and no charges that I’m aware of. Without those, we can’t have due process, we don’t know what is behind these actions, and we can’t know whether the public interest is being served or harmed” — SJP chapter faculty adviser Ben Manski: Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti…

“Hamas’s video lists and dates the incidents in which the group said captives were killed. Most of them were air strikes. However, some were rescue attempts by the Israeli military gone wrong”: Hamas Says 33 Captives Killed in Gaza as Palestinian Factions Hold Talks (Aljazeera) As rebels advance, Assad resorts to Israeli style war crimes:…

“A lightning advance by insurgents over the past two days in parts of northern and central Syria was the result of better organization by rebel forces, the weakening of President Bashar al-Assad’s military allies and, possibly, luck” … Syria Rebels Regrouped, Seized on Weakness of Government’s Key Allies (Washington Post) … but as some commentators…

“The duo was terminated on the basis of the report submitted by the security agencies. However, no departmental inquiry was instituted against them earlier”: L-G Sacks 2 Govt. Employees in J&K Even as Ruling NC Pushes for Reviewing Such Cases (The Hindu) Israeli war crimes continue: Israel Army Killed 100 Palestinians in Northern Gaza in…

“The timing of this ceasefire is the result of a convergence of interests among the government in Israel, Hezbollah itself and that of its chief sponsor, Iran – but all for different reasons” … Why Israel and Hezbollah Reached a Ceasefire Now ? and What It Means for Israel, Lebanon, Biden and Trump (The Conversation)…

“[T]here are important connections between the ICC’s analysis of the situation in Palestine and the ICJ’s, that clearly weaken the predominant and longstanding Western discourse of “impunity for me and accountability for you”, especially regarding Israel”: ICC Arrest Warrants: Has Palestine Birthed a Post-Western World? ( New Arab) As “US Chief Justice John Roberts ruled…

“This war lacks a clear objective, and it’s evident that we’re unequivocally losing it” — Former Mossad deputy chief Ram Ben-Bara: A Nation In Denial: Why Israel’s Defeat Is Imminent (Kashmir Reader) “Israel partisans …  channel[ed] US State Department resources into the construction of an ‘Iran Freedom Coalition’ composed of pro-Western Iranian activists and US…

Reactions to ICC warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu and Gallant: Palestine: ICC Warrants Revive Hope for Long-Delayed Justice (Human Rights Watch) The ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Is Also an Indictment of US Policy and Complicity (Other News) Live: Biden Denounces ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu as ‘Outrageous’ (France 24) World Reacts to ICC…