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No Dutch Investigation into Mladic’s Death, Says Tribunal

The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina among graves at the memorial cemetery where the victims of the Srebrenica genocide are buried, following the death of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 28, 2026. (Reuters)
The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina among graves at the memorial cemetery where the victims of the Srebrenica genocide are buried, following the death of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 28, 2026. (Reuters)
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No Dutch Investigation into Mladic’s Death, Says Tribunal

The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina among graves at the memorial cemetery where the victims of the Srebrenica genocide are buried, following the death of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 28, 2026. (Reuters)
The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina among graves at the memorial cemetery where the victims of the Srebrenica genocide are buried, following the death of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 28, 2026. (Reuters)

A UN court said Saturday evening that Dutch authorities would not be conducting a criminal investigation into the death of Ratko Mladic, the convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Mladic, serving life in prison in The Hague for genocide and war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, died in hospital on Thursday, having suffered several strokes in recent months.

His age has always been a matter of dispute. He claimed to have been born in March 1943, but the tribunal listed his birth year as 1942 -- local media widely reported that he'd died at the age of 84.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Mechanism said the Dutch authorities had carried out the procedures required by national law.

On Friday, they had decided "that no criminal investigation would be opened and that they would not be conducting an autopsy", the statement added.

The Mechanism said it had also appointed a judge, Iain Bonomy, to conduct a separate investigation into Mladic's death. That inquiry was still ongoing and details, for the moment, were confidential, it added.

On Monday, days before Mladic's death, the Serbian authorities had called for his release on health grounds for treatment in Serbia.

In May, the Mechanism had already rejected a request from his family for Mladic's release.

Mladic, who was arrested in Serbia in 2011, had the verdict against him confirmed on appeal in 2021.

One of the crimes ascribed to him was the July 1995 massacre of approximately 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in the eastern Srebrenica region -- the worst such atrocity in Europe since WWII.

The Mechanism's role is to carry out the residual duties of the UN tribunals based in The Hague, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which convicted Mladic.

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Türkiye Nabs Suspect in 2013 Attack by Syria Border

A Turkish flag with the Bosphorus Bridge in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Türkiye, September 30, 2020. (Reuters)
A Turkish flag with the Bosphorus Bridge in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Türkiye, September 30, 2020. (Reuters)
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Türkiye Nabs Suspect in 2013 Attack by Syria Border

A Turkish flag with the Bosphorus Bridge in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Türkiye, September 30, 2020. (Reuters)
A Turkish flag with the Bosphorus Bridge in the background, flies on a passenger ferry in Istanbul, Türkiye, September 30, 2020. (Reuters)

Türkiye's intelligence agency has captured a key suspect from a deadly 2013 attack near the Syrian border while he was attempting to flee to Europe, state media said Thursday, citing a security source.

The twin bombings in the southern Reyhanli district, which killed 53 people, was the deadliest attack in Türkiye linked to fallout from Syria's civil war that began two years earlier, said AFP.

Omar al-Khatib, a Syrian who was the subject of an Interpol red notice, is believed to have coordinated between the attackers and intelligence officials loyal to Syria's then president Bashar al-Assad, Anadolu news agency reported.

Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) detained al-Khatib as he prepared to leave for Europe by sea, Anadolu said, without saying exactly where or when he was caught.

Ankara blamed Turkish extremist groups allegedly backed by the Syrian government for the Reyhanli attack, accusations Damascus denied.

Türkiye was a strong supporter of Syrian rebels seeking to overthrow Assad and has hosted millions of Syrians who fled the conflict.

Since Assad's ouster nearly two years ago, Ankara has built close ties with Syria's new leadership under President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

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Explosions Heard Overnight in Ethiopia's Capital

(FILES) Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters prepare to leave for another field at Tigray Martyr's Memorial Monument Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)
(FILES) Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters prepare to leave for another field at Tigray Martyr's Memorial Monument Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)
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Explosions Heard Overnight in Ethiopia's Capital

(FILES) Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters prepare to leave for another field at Tigray Martyr's Memorial Monument Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)
(FILES) Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters prepare to leave for another field at Tigray Martyr's Memorial Monument Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 30, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP)

Explosions were heard overnight in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, three diplomatic sources told Reuters.

A source linked to the opposition alliance that has been fighting federal forces in northern Ethiopia since last week said the alliance had carried out several drone strikes in Addis Ababa, including some targeting the military's headquarters there.

Reuters could ‌not independently ‌verify the claim.

If confirmed, ‌the ⁠strikes would mark ⁠the first known drone attack by anti-government forces on the Ethiopian capital.

Spokespeople for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office, the federal government and the military did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Last ⁠week's clashes in northern Ethiopia ‌were the biggest escalation ‌of violence in Ethiopia since the end ‌of a 2020-2022 civil war.

The national intelligence ‌service announced on Wednesday that it was banning for an indefinite period all drone flights over Addis Ababa and its surroundings for ‌security reasons.

Opposition alliance forces were not previously known to operate armed ⁠drones. ⁠However, there is growing evidence they may possess at least some drone capability.

On Tuesday, a pro-government militia in the northern region of Tigray said it had captured drone frames and batteries from forces linked to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), one of the alliance's main members.

Reuters could not independently verify that claim.

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Immigration Judge Rules US Can Deport President of Wisconsin's Largest Mosque

FILE - This photo provided by Yaseen Jajeeb shows Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP, File)
FILE - This photo provided by Yaseen Jajeeb shows Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP, File)
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Immigration Judge Rules US Can Deport President of Wisconsin's Largest Mosque

FILE - This photo provided by Yaseen Jajeeb shows Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP, File)
FILE - This photo provided by Yaseen Jajeeb shows Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP, File)

An immigration judge ruled that the US government can deport Palestinian American Salah Sarsour, who is the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque and a US permanent resident, under a Cold War-era law.
Sarsour, who grew up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in late March and released in mid-June after a federal judge said he had raised a substantial free speech retaliation claim that would render his detention unlawful, reported Reuters.
Chicago Immigration ‌Court Judge Jayme ‌Salinardi sided late on Tuesday with the government's argument that ‌Sarsour ⁠posed a security and ⁠foreign policy threat under the Cold War-era Immigration and Nationality Act, while rejecting the government's allegation that he lied on his green card application.
The US Department of Homeland Security welcomed the ruling, saying the judge "sustained multiple grounds of removability" in the case.
Sarsour said his legal team will appeal the ruling, which he called "deeply disappointing."
"I will not stop standing up for what's right and for justice in Palestine," he said in a statement. Sarsour cannot ⁠be deported until all legal avenues available to him are ‌exhausted. He says his life will be at risk ‌if deported to the West Bank.
Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest mosque, says Sarsour has ‌lived in the US for over three decades.
The mosque has said Sarsour ‌was "being targeted on the basis of his Palestinian and Muslim background, and his advocacy for Palestinian rights."
He has type 2 diabetes and lost more than 30 pounds in ICE detention, his legal team said.
Sarsour has no criminal record in the US and was convicted as a teenager ‌in Israeli military court before he came to the United States, which the Trump administration noted to cast him as a ⁠threat. Sarsour says ⁠the government has known that information for decades.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem says military courts in the West Bank, where Palestinians are tried for alleged crimes, have a 96% conviction rate and a history of extracting confessions through torture.
President Donald Trump's administration says Sarsour was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli armed forces.
Sarsour denies committing such crimes and says he was tortured and coerced into past confessions.
Trump has attempted to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters, threatened funding freezes for universities where protests were held, enforced a social media screening of immigrants and sanctioned Israel's critics.
Trump alleges pro-Palestinian voices are antisemitic and support extremists. Advocates, including some Jewish groups, say their criticism of Israeli attacks on Gaza and of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories does not amount to antisemitism, and their advocacy for Palestinian rights should not be conflated with supporting extremism.