Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...

“The war was a tragedy for Lebanon. But there are a lot of opportunities in all this rubble.” Yet given the urgent need to rebuild and the time it would take to sort through the debris to find ...

The debris is believed to be contaminated with asbestos, with some refugee camps struck during the war known to have been built with the material. The rubble also likely holds human remains. The ...

In it, artillery plays the main role, reducing entire city blocks to rubble. When the Russians captured Grozny after several ...