Middle East and North Africa

On February 11, 2014, the Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon ruled orally that the case against Hassan Habib Merhi should be joined with the case against Salim Jamil Ayyash, Mustafa

On January 23, 2014, the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) issued $1.03 billion USD in damage claims to the Government of Kuwait arising out of the 1990 Iraqi invasion.

On January 16, 2014, the first trial at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon began in Prosecutor v.

On January 14, 2014, the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) issued its judgment in

On December 19, 2013, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the forced trans

On December 12, 2013, the United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic issued a

On November 24, 2013, Iran signed a Joint Plan of Action with six nations in Geneva’s Palace of Nations that brings a freez

On November 20, 2013, Afghanistan released a draft of the Security and Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United Sta

On November 13, 2013, Saudi Arabia officially rejected a seat on the United Nati

On November 18, 2013, the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII, condemned all acts of piracy committed at sea off the coast of Somalia and called upon Somali authorities “to pa