Keywords: War Crimes


Poland accuses Putin of war crimes as US envoy travels to Moscow

Poland’s foreign minister has sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of committing war crimes as a senior US envoy prepares to travel to Moscow for talks with the Kremlin. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski denounced Russia’s......

Ukraine reports intercepted orders to execute prisoners of war

Ukrainian military officials say intercepted communications show Russian commanders issuing direct orders to execute Ukrainian prisoners of war along multiple front line sectors. The claims point to a pattern of conduct rather than isolated battlefield abuses, according to senior Ukrainian officers and......

Sudanese militia leader convicted by ICC for crimes against humanity

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, known as Ali Kosheib, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur between 2003 and 2004. Kosheib was convicted of murder, rape, torture, and other acts of violence......

Death of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in Ukraine: France opens war crimes investigation

The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced on Sunday that it has opened an investigation for war crimes following the death of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, killed in a drone strike in eastern Ukraine. The case has been assigned to the Central......

Scholars’ association declares Israel’s Gaza actions meet genocide definition

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has officially passed a resolution stating that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza align with the legal definition of genocide as outlined in the 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.......

Polisario militants exposed: Hezbollah-trained fighters implicated in Syrian war crimes

Revelations about the role of Polisario fighters in Syria’s civil war have brought new evidence of their involvement in atrocities, linking the separatist group to Iran-backed militias and raising alarms about their destabilizing presence in North Africa and beyond. A recent investigation by Dutch......

ICC rebukes new US sanctions on judges and prosecutors

The International Criminal Court condemned newly announced United States sanctions against four of its officials, describing the move as a direct assault on the court’s independence and the broader rules-based order. The measures target Canadian Judge Kimberly Prost, French Judge Nicolas Guillou,......

Anas Al Sharif: Gaza’s silenced truth amid Israel’s war on journalists

The murder of Anas Al Sharif, a 28-year-old Al Jazeera correspondent, and five of his colleagues in a targeted Israeli strike outside Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital marks another tragic chapter in Israel’s campaign to suppress press freedom. The attack, which killed seven people sheltering in a......

Israel accused of targeting medics and journalists in Gaza as violence escalates

Two weeks after a video of a young girl walking through flames at the bombed Fahmi al-Jarjawi school in Gaza captured the world’s attention, the rescuer who saved her and the journalist who filmed the scene have been killed in an Israeli airstrike. The June 9 attack on paramedics and journalists......