Heavely deserved! Second Pulitzer for amazing investigations of American role in Afghanistan tragedy for Matt Aikins and other brilliant colleagues

A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

#Serbia: @amnesty.org's revelations show evidence of the abuse of advanced #Pegasus #spyware to target two journalists from investigative media platform BIRN. We strongly condemn these new attacks, which pose a serious threat to journalistic privacy, source protection and media freedom.

About historical protest in Belgrade 15th of March against corruption @crta.bsky.social

When your country ends up in Snyder's tweet

#Voices2025: 15 minutes of silence for the 15 people killed in the tragic incident of Novi Sad. "One word, One fight, Academic Solidarity". Support to the journalists students, and the press being targeted for their reporting. #Croatia #Pressfreedom

Brilliant move by our friends at the Kyiv Independent — this is exactly how to handle baseless claims that aren’t even worth a full debunking. kyivindependent.com/who-started-...

"A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

🚨Lebanon for the first time since May 2022 has both a president & full-fledged government. PM Nawaf Salam’s gov has inherited a mess: - post-war reconstruction in the south - bringing security across all borders - crucial reforms to fix banks, electricity, and economy

Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021 @lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation: The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly" www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

Koliko ćeš nedostajati....

Blokada Mosta slobode u Novom Sadu

Dok čekamo Oskara, razgovor sa Nebojšom Slijepcevicem www.bbc.com/serbian/arti...

ICJ president Nawaf Salam is Lebanon’s new prime minister. He received the majority of votes, with 84 out of 128 MPs endorsing him over incumbent premier Najib Mikati, who received 9. Hezbollah’s bloc abstained. Salam flies in to Beirut from the Hague tomorrow.

Emily Bell - Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dani žalosti posle Titove smrti, SKC, novi talas, Vlada Divljan, Milan Mladenović, Jelena Šantić, 9. mart, Ne računajte na nas na Trgu 1992, Crni flor, Makavejev... Prve fotografije koje će vam izroniti iz sećanja na ove reči biće dela Goranke Matić.

Jimmy Carter was the first US president to make human rights a central part of foreign policy, and that was because he listened to Patricia Derian, who pretty much invented US human rights policy. If he had done nothing else in his life this would still be reason to admire him.

Have a listen to this extraordinary interview with @orwaajjoub.bsky.social who has incredible insight into HTS.

Assad's henchmen and women have disappeared. Where have they gone? apnews.com/article/bash...

“Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at the defence ministry on Saturday that Russian military support was on its way and urged ground forces to hold out.“ Great reporting here. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This is heart breaking

Millions today across Syria are celebrating the downfall of a system that has ruled the people with an Iron fist for decades. Hama - Assy square now demonstrating an end to that bloody era.

"Journalism schools need to find more ways to collaborate across disciplines in 2025 to expand the skill set journalism students learn beyond reporting and storytelling," @brizzyc.bsky.social writes.

Sitting outside a Shawarma place in the heart of Damascus, surrounded by revolutionary flags, as Abdelbasset al-Sarout’s rendition of Janna plays on a speaker. A scene that would be incomprehensible two weeks ago

IMPORTANT: Kurdish Admin in North East Syria has ordered all government buildings in SDF controlled areas to raise the Syrian revolution flag. “The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement

Great reporting from Clarissa Ward and the CNN team - ‘Are you serious?’: He spent months in a Syrian prison. CNN’s camera caught the moment he’s freed edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/w...

This is Latakia yesterday. Supposedly the regime's 'heartland'. How beautiful to see these scenes.

As one of the final chapters of the liberation of Syrian cities is concluded, the people of Derizor this morning are ecstatic. "heaven, heaven, heaven.. heaven is our nation"

I am now, for the first time in my life, inside Free Syria. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d live long enough to say.

“Assad’s police threatened to bury me and my reporting. Now I’m back, and free” BBC correspondent Lina Sinjab returns to Syria www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just two days after the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, several European countries have seized the opportunity to publicly announce that they will suspend the processing of asylum applications from Syrians. 🧵⤵️

I began my career almost 30 years ago with the Forced Migration Projects at OSI, advocating against the premature return of Bosnian refugees after the Dayton accords. We're seeing the same playbook with Syrians now, as grudgingly granted protection is being switched out for a rush to return.

SEDNAYA PRISON: The horrors continue to unfold in Sednaya prison Dozens of decomposed bodies of detainees found. This is what pro-Assadists were defending.

The future is uncertain but can we just relish this moment as prisoners reunite with families after decades?

The scenes from Sednaya prison in Syria are shocking; people wandering into the light after decades in dark detention & torture. I interviewed Omar Alshogre, a former Sednaya child prisoner, about his reaction to history being made in Syria this weekend. Watch/share/subscribe:

Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and received Russian asylum, the Kremlin just told the state media. tass.ru/mezhdunarodn...

Dear @bsky.app can we get notification button for posts of people who are important for us to follow? If it already exists, can someone help me and show where it is 😊

"I can't go out, I am following news from Syria" - weekend plan

BREAKING: Homs has fallen to the rebels as Assad's forces and regime sponsored militias completely withdraw from the city.

Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Deraa, Suwayda, Qunaitra, Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Hasakah. All in a week.

DAMASCUS: Assad's forces, members of the 127th Brigade, have withdrawn from the town of Rankous in Qalamoun, which is very close to Saidnaya Prison. The notorious prison is nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse" These are extraordinary moments.

DAMASCUS: The Reconnaissance Regiment in the Al-Tabibiya suburb of Damascus has been cleared from all traces of Assad's forces.

What a story!

It is going to be harder and harder for #Israel to dismiss #HumanRights organizations, courts, researchers, scholars and others calling its actions a #genocide. Can they really ALL be antisemitic? No, they can't. #Gaza

Family reinions ss the Syrian Free State of Idllib reunited with Aleppo. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel has since launched a series of airstrikes, most over southern Lebanon. A Hezbollah political official told Lebanese network Al Jadeed that their strike earlier was to send a "deterrent message" b/c Israel continued overflights & strikes. 1/

An explosion late Friday damaged a key aqueduct in Kosovo that sends water to the country’s two main power plants, prompting allegations and recriminations with neighboring Serbia amid rising tensions in the region @unawrites.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/blas...

Absolutely historic footage from #Aleppo tonight. Rebel forces reached the statue of Bashar's deceased brother Bassel al-Assad at the eastern edge of the New Aleppo district, taking down the regime flag. #Syria.