All news on the topic: War crimes

Evil Hamas sadists forced kidnapped family members to perform indescribable sexual acts on each other, a haunting two-year probe has found.

Israel will establish a military tribunal to try hundreds of Palestinian militants who took part in the October 7 attack on the country.

Lawyers representing convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision from a UN court regarding their request to release him from jail in The Hague on the grounds that he is nearing the end of his life.

On April 20, the French Jewish organization Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) filed a complaint against “persons unknown” with France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office, the Parquet national antiterroriste (PNAT), alleging complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Lord Hermer unleashed a bitter attack on British soldiers after his war crimes case against them was revealed to be false.

A network of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enabling it to capture the western city of el-Fasher last year, a new report says.

Ben Roberts-Smith, the most highly honoured living soldier in Australia, has been detained at Sydney airport and accused of committing war crimes

The UK will refrain from engaging in any offensive actions against Iran, a Cabinet minister has confirmed after Donald Trump threatened to target the nation's civilian infrastructure

On the fourth anniversary of Russia's comprehensive invasion of Ukraine, European prosecutors in conjunction with Ukrainian authorities revealed the initial criminal charges concerning war crimes committed throughout the conflict, indicating that, following years of coordinated inquiries spearheaded by Eurojust, legal proceedings have commenced

The investigative programmes Schemes and Systema released an inquiry founded on the archived personal communications of Russian military officer Roman Demurchiev

The co-leader of the Scottish Greens has asserted that individuals from the UK who have engaged in combat alongside Israel in the Palestinian conflict ought to face war crime charges upon their return

On Thursday, Slovenia declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unwelcome, barring him from entering the nation, as stated by the government after a Cabinet meeting

A group of Palestinians plans to submit a legal petition calling upon the UK to acknowledge its responsibility for what they term "repeated breaches of international law," including war crimes carried out during Britain's occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, with lasting impacts they claim continue to be experienced to this day

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has expressed its strong disapproval of the fresh US sanctions imposed on its judges and prosecutors

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, experienced a major combined drone and missile attack late Friday, with explosions and machine gun fire audible throughout the city.

A top general who failed to report evidence of alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan later oversaw the rejection of hundreds of UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who served with the elite regiment, BBC Panorama can reveal.

Attack during the night before the Munich Security Conference started a fire but did not cause a radiation leak, says Kyiv.

Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city

Detectives are looking into to possibility of charging Rwandan’s living in the UK with historic offences 30 years on from the massacre of 800,000 in just 100 days

First-hand accounts from victims of unthinkable violence paint a gruesome picture of the brutality sweeping the central African country. How long is the West prepared to look away?

Russia has been quietly churning out hundreds of thermobaric drones which can collapse lungs, crush eyeballs and cause brain damage in its war on Ukraine.