Law ❯Criminal Law

War Crimes

War Crimes Geopolitics Conflict Human Rights Human Rights Conflict Investigative Reporting Defamation Geopolitics Diplomacy

Court Convicts Three Former Salvadoran Officers in 1982 Murder of Dutch Journalists

The verdict concludes a decades-long effort to hold security forces accountable, with a US-based defendant now facing extradition proceedings.

German Court Hands Life Sentence to Syrian Militiaman for Civil War Atrocities

Sweden Charges Osama Krayem with War Crimes in 2014 Islamic State Execution

DR Congo Senate Strips Joseph Kabila of Immunity for Rebel Ties

Full Court Upholds War Crime Findings Against Ben Roberts-Smith

Australia Condemns Russia's 13-Year Sentence for Captured Volunteer Fighter

Ben Roberts-Smith Loses Defamation Appeal Over War Crimes Allegations

UK Urged to Prosecute Returning ISIS Fighters for International Crimes

Russia Escalates Aerial Attacks as Ukraine Launches Cross-Border Offensive

DR Congo Senate Weighs Revoking Kabila’s Immunity Over War Crimes Allegations

Court Admits Secret Recording in Ben Roberts-Smith’s Defamation Appeal Bid

Australian Volunteer Oscar Jenkins Indicted on Mercenary Charges in Lugansk

Irmgard Furchner, Last Convicted Nazi Camp Official, Dies at 99

Finnish Court Sentences Russian Neo-Nazi Commander to Life for Ukraine War Crimes

British Ex-Soldier Sentenced to 19 Years in Russian Prison for Fighting in Ukraine

Swedish Woman Sentenced to 12 Years for Enslaving Yazidis in Syria

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Investigated Over Release of Libyan War Crimes Suspect

Former Bosnian Prison Camp Supervisor Sentenced for Wartime Atrocities and Immigration Fraud