Adil Haque

Pope Leo mourns victims in Middle East, prays for peace - Vatican News Pope Leo XIV expresses his profound sorrow for the victims of bombings in the Middle East, especially children and Fr. Pierre El-Rahi, a Maronite ...

Link:

www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"The Maronite . Catholic priest was killed in Qlayaa, Lebanon, on Monday as he sought to assist parishioners whose house had been fired upon by an Israeli tank"

"Fr. El-Rahi rushed to the house ... with several young people when the tank struck the house again"

A shepherd dies with his flock.

Harrowing. Draws on work by @oonahathaway.bsky.social and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social

Report Offers New Evidence of Starvation Crimes in Darfur Two leading international law scholars analyze a report from the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab on evidence of starvation crimes in Darfur.

A report out today from Yale Humanitarian Research Lab offers new evidence of starvation crimes in #Darfur.

#InternationalLaw professors Tom Dannenbaum and Oona Hathaway provide their legal analysis of the new data.

#Sudan

"In fact, Iran has no Tomahawks."

"Leqaa, I want so badly to tell you that the world has stood by you. But I refuse to lie to you. The truth is that the world has failed you, and so have we. I cannot grasp that you remain, a full year later, thousands of miles away from your home, from your family, from the life you were building."

Sickening

Fear and Hope for Iranians Trapped Between Bombs and Defiant Rulers

Mohammad Maljoo: “War opens neither a door to reform nor a horizon of liberation.” And Art 2(4) of the UN Charter serves to remind everyone of this: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

HRANA update: at least 1,205 civilians killed, including at least 194 children

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran resident

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous

"The administration has bypassed the informal approval process in Congress three times to sell arms or send weapons aid to Israel, but previously has not declared an emergency."

The United Kingdom is not only aiding and assisting the United States’ unlawful use of force against Iran but also is running the risk of committing an act of aggression itself.

The 1974 Definition of Aggression of the UN General Assembly includes the following:

“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”

Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway

Read it in English here:

verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...

And in German here:

verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...

Actually existing democratic socialism:

HRANA update:

• Civilian fatalities: 1,172 (including at least 194 children)
• Military fatalities: 176
• Unclassified fatalities (civilian/military): 284

"It should be noted that these figures should be considered minimum estimates."

My thoughts on how to assess the lawfulness under IHL of the air strike on the primary school in Minab, Iran earlier this week, based on an interview with the newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour - link in first reply 👇

The Ethics of Intervention in Iran (guest post) - Daily Nous "In light of the awful brutality by the Iranian government against the uprising in late December 2025, the case for humanitarian intervention in Iran is not obviously implausible..." But what about th...

“In light of the awful brutality by the Iranian government against the uprising in late December 2025, the case for humanitarian intervention in Iran is not obviously implausible…” But what about the actual intervention going on now?

"Satellite imagery analysis reveals multiple strikes and burn marks around a school in southern Iran, suggesting it was hit more than once, in an attack Iranian authorities say killed 168 people on Saturday."

First Lady of Iraq:

"Leave The Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns For Hire."

"The Dena sent a distress signal after it was hit. The Sri Lankan Navy sent ships to help and was able to rescue 32 Iranian sailors. At least 80 people on the ship were killed, according to the Sri Lankan authorities."

Is the UK's intervention in Iran war legal? Starmer said Britain would intercept Iranian missiles and allow US to use its bases in defensive action. Does that make the UK complicit in an illegal war?

British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor?
Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...

Every Iranian analyst agrees this is a terrible idea.

Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.

You know things are bad when ...

Very interesting to see an intervention aligned with the respondent state (which has not been typical in the so-called “mass intervention” cases so far).

Paraguay's Declaration of Intervention:

www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Ugh last parens should say (dolus eventualis)