A member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the U.N. Security Council had made the job impossible, Swiss national news agency SDA reported. Carla del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war ...
Human rights groups asked Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to retract a threat of airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning that such attacks would constitute war crimes. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said international humanitarian law "prohibits ...
Anguished Afghans scoured hospitals and morgues in Kabul Wednesday, sifting through disfigured and charred bodies for missing relatives after a catastrophic truck bombing left at least 90 people dead and hundreds wounded. The bomb, hidden inside a sewage tanker, detonated close to the presidential palace ...
A ceremony marking the Japanese government's donation of a "Peace and Justice Bell" to the International Criminal Court was held at the court's main building in The Hague this week. The bell, 73 cm high and 45 cm in diameter and with the word "peace" ...
Syrian authorities have accused rebel fighters of executing 21 civilians, including women and children, at close range as they quit second city Aleppo last week, state media reported. The bodies were found in two neighborhoods in east Aleppo, state news agency SANA said late Sunday. The ...
The International Criminal Court is not perfect but it has proven able to make a difference. It must not be allowed to fail.
Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege. The renewed bombardment killed at least 32 people in Aleppo city in 24 hours, and sparked anger ...
Seventy years after the Nuremberg trials, it's time to give teeth to efforts to bring war criminals to justice.
The International Criminal Court has fired a warning shot over allegations of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines' bloody drugs war at a time when critics in Manila have also begun speaking up. In a statement on Thursday, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office is ...
Syria's army took control of a rebel-held district in central Aleppo on Tuesday, after days of heavy airstrikes that have killed dozens and sparked allegations of war crimes. In the first advance since announcing plans last week to retake all of the divided city, pro-government ...
The Chilcot report demolishes Tony Blair's sham justifications for embroiling the U.K. in possibly the most disastrous war of the modern era.
Justice has finally been served to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has been found guilty of genocide by a U.N. tribunal.
