Social media is often blamed for stoking violence. But it can play a positive role by drawing attention to atrocities – both ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But should one of those two sets of killings be classified as a government-involved ...

Warning: This article includes graphic accounts of what some prisoners experienced in Assad's prisons. In the shadow of Syria’s brutal civil war, one institution stands as a chilling symbol of the ...

Can a cause still be just, even if atrocities have been committed on its behalf? There is a set of images to which Americans do not have much access. It consists of photos of German cities after the ...

As mass shooting events follow one another to no end, more and more people are exposed to atrocities: death, injury, disfiguration, life threat, and evil intent, all done for reasons that reason ...

Saturday marks the second anniversary of Russia’s atrocity-ridden invasion and occupation of Ukraine. A full list of Russian atrocities over the past two years ...

Thousands of people were killed by Iranian security forces in days of protests in January 2026. Meanwhile, in the same month, the killing of two protesters in Minneapolis shone a light on the use of ...