The intricacies of the recently signed agreement to create a Tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression: The decision promises to be an important step in international justice, but will it be effect ...

Among them were 53 Australian army nursing sisters. Two days later, 21 who made it to Radji Beach lay dead, machinegunned by Japanese soldiers. The sole survivor of this infamous massacre was Sister ...

Britain’s incoming MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli is facing uncomfortable scrutiny after revelations surfaced linking her ...

That day was so vivid and enormous it’s difficult to remember now, almost two years later, that expert warnings of Israel’s ...

Thousands of Allied POWs disappeared without a trace. Crammed into rusting cargo ships with no food, no water, and no way out, these prisoners weren’t just casualties of war. They were trapped ...

International War Crimes Tribunal Investigators clear away soil and debris from dozens of Srebrenica victims buried in a mass grave near the village of Pilica. Staton R Winter/AAP the things being ...

Even as recently as the 1940s, during World War II, U.S. and U.K. forces killed hundreds of thousands of people in their bombings of German and Japanese cities.

HLS Professor Susan Farbstein, director of Harvard’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, announced plans to submit evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal ...

On Dec. 17, 1944, as the Battle of the Bulge raged, German troops committed a war crime at a crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium by massacring American troops who had been taken prisoner.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, also in the mid-1990s, families were specifically attacked, and even during the Holocaust in World War II, the Nazis separated families as they sent Jews to labor and ...