Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from War Crimes

'Show' trial of foreign fighters in Donetsk breaks with international law – and could itself be a war crime

The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway region in Ukraine presents a serious deviation from international law – one that in itself represents a war crime.

The Conversation

Amnesty says Russia guilty of war crimes in Kharkiv shelling

Russia's relentless shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions and scatterable land mines amounts to a war crime that indiscriminately killed hundreds of civilians, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Reuters

Ukraine war: Amnesty accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ in Kharkiv

Amnesty International accuses Moscow of dropping banned cluster bombs on Ukrainian city, killing hundreds of civilians.

Al Jazeera

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Amnesty Accuses Russia of War Crimes in Kharkiv, Killing Hundreds

Amnesty International on Monday accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, saying attacks on Kharkiv, many using banned cluster bombs, had killed hundreds of civilians.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelenskiy says the battle for Sievierodonetsk is taking a ‘terrifying’ toll on Ukraine – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here

The Guardian - AU

More bodies exhumed near Ukraine’s Bucha as battle rages for Severodonetsk

Ukrainian investigators exhumed seven bodies from makeshift graves in a forest near Bucha on Monday as Kyiv said its forces had been pushed back from the centre of Severodonetsk, the epicentre of a wider battle for control of the eastern Donbas region. All times Paris time (GMT+2).

France 24

Human Rights Group Calls on ICC to Prosecute Israeli Officers

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) presented a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) denouncing alleged crimes committed by the Israeli Security Agency against Palestinian detainees. The organization said it took this step to assist the Court in its investigations into…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

French experts collect evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine's Chernihiv

Weapons experts from France are helping their Ukrainian counterparts collect evidence of possible Russian war crimes in the northern region of Chernihiv, Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Friday.

Reuters

Lawmakers explore options for Ukraine war crimes investigations

WASHINGTON — There does not appear to be ample Republican support to amend laws that tightly prohibit U.S. support to the International Criminal Court as lawmakers search for ways Washington can assist Ukrainian officials with war crimes investigations of Russians.

Tribune News Service

Lawmakers explore options for Ukraine war crimes investigations - Roll Call

Prohibition on U.S. support to the International Criminal Court has lawmakers searching for other ways to assist investigations of Russians.

Roll Call

Ukraine: Russian attitudes to Ukrainians can help to explain the atrocities

Speaking to journalist Sophie Raworth on the BBC’s Sunday Morning show recently, former war crimes prosecutor Sir Howard Morrison, now an advisor to the Ukraine government, highlighted the dangers posed by the negative – often insulting and dehumanising – statements made by some Russian politicians and media personalities about Ukraine…

The Conversation

Latest Ukraine updates: Putin likens himself to Peter the Great

Ukraine news from June 9: President speaks of Russia’s need to ‘take back [territory] and defend itself’.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine has filed eight more war crimes cases to court - prosecutor

Ukraine has filed eight more war crimes cases to court in addition to three sentences already handed down to Russian soldiers, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Trudy Rubin: Putin’s new war crime: Starving world’s poor by blocking Ukraine’s grain exports

You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of weapons of mass destruction).

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Ukraine's Book of Executioners will collect evidence of alleged Russian war crimes

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a new tool will collate evidence of war crimes and support his longstanding pledge to bring to account Russian servicemen accused of murders, rape and looting.

Al Jazeera

Exhuming Ukraine’s dead for war crimes investigations

As Kyiv district authorities investigate possible war crimes perpetrated by Russian troops, volunteers exhume bodies.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine: UK justice ministry offers more support for ICC war crimes investigation

Dominic Raab to unveil new raft of measures, which include providing court with a specialist legal and police team

Daily Mirror

Ukraine war 100 days in - Russian war crimes, hellscapes, 'ill' Putin and heroism

Russia invaded Ukraine 100 days ago, leaving cities destroyed, killing thousands of people - including civilians - and leaving families heartbroken. What happens next? Here, we look at the options

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Exclusive-Ukraine investigates deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide

Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of the forcible deportation of children to Russia since the invasion as they seek to build a genocide indictment, the country’s top prosecutor said in an interview.

The Independent UK

100 days of Ukraine invasion: How Russian soldiers weaponised rape in war with Kyiv

Ukraine has documented more than 15,000 suspected war crimes, including rapes by ill-equipped Russian soldiers who use sexual violence to instil fear among the local population

Radio France Internationale

Rights groups accuse French arms makers of war crimes complicity in Yemen

Three NGOs on Thursday filed a lawsuit in a Paris court against French arms producers Dassault Aviation, Thales and MBDA France for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen. They accuse the companies of having sold weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that were then used against…

Reuters

Rights groups allege French arms makers complicit in Yemen war crimes

Three non-governmenatal organisations (NGOs) said on Thursday they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms' producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen after selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta likely using air strikes as 'collective punishment': Amnesty

Myanmar's military has likely used air strikes and artillery barrages as "collective punishment" against civilians opposing its coup, Amnesty International said Wednesday, accusing the junta of war crimes.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Macron Decries Journalist’s Death in Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed France will continue to "fight against impunity" after a French journalist was killed by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation. The French national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for war crimes. Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, was killed Monday as he was covering a…

Al Jazeera

Ukraine identifies 600 Russian war crime suspects: Prosecutor

Kyiv’s top prosecutor says Ukraine has started prosecuting dozens of Russian war crime suspects.

1 … 45 46 47 48

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Amnesty International

International Criminal Court

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Weapons of mass destruction

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.