Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Criminal Court of anti-semitism on Sunday over its chief prosecutor's plan to pursue a war crimes probe in the Palestinian Territories.

Netanyahu accuses international court of anti-semitism in war crimes probe

The UK government and military covered up credible evidence of war crimes by British soldiers against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an investigation by the BBC and the Sunday Times.

UK government and military covered up war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq: Report

Sri Lanka's front-running presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapakse vowed Tuesday that if elected he will scrap Colombo's pledge to investigate war crimes committed during his brother Mahinda's decade in power.

Rajapakse vows to scrap Sri Lanka war crimes probe if elected

A decorated US Navy SEAL was found not guilty Tuesday of murdering a captive teenage militant in Iraq, the most serious of the charges brought against him during a two-week war crimes trial in San Diego.

US Navy SEAL found not guilty of murder in war crimes trial

Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator said on Tuesday ( July 2).

United Nations investigator reports possible fresh war crimes in Myanmar

Myanmar's military is guilty of committing new "war crimes", extrajudicial killings and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Amnesty accuses Myanmar military of fresh 'war crimes' in Rakhine

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is considering pardons for "two or three" American soldiers charged with war crimes, a move he also said would be controversial but justified because they had been treated "unfairly.

Trump says to consider pardons for some US soldiers accused of war crimes

Judges at the International Criminal Court Friday turned down a request to open a war crimes probe in Afghanistan, a week after Washington revoked the court's chief prosecutor's visa over the case.

ICC judges turn down request for Afghanistan war crimes probe

Sri Lanka's main minority Tamil party demanded Friday that foreign judges be included in a special court to investigate war crimes, a day after the UN again granted Colombo more time for a much-delayed probe.

Sri Lankan Tamils demand foreign judges in war crimes probe

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will spend the rest of his life in jail for the "sheer scale and systematic cruelty" of his crimes in the war that tore his country apart a quarter of a century ago, UN judges said on Wednesday.

Karadzic handed life sentence for Bosnia war crimes

Officials from the International Criminal Court are in Bangladesh as part of a preliminary examination of whether a prosecution over the alleged deportations of Rohingya could be mounted, a UN human rights investigator said on Monday.

International Criminal Court officials visit Bangladesh to look into Myanmar case: United Nations investigator

A Bangladeshi man was hanged in a jail outside Dhaka over the murder of a Saudi diplomat in 2012, an official said Monday. Khalaf Al Ali, 45, who worked in the consular section of the Saudi Arabian embassy, was shot in the capital's diplomatic zone in front of his rented apartment.

Bangladeshi man hanged for Saudi diplomat's murder

Police have arrested two Syrian citizens in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity, including torturing prisoners, during their work for the intelligence service in Syria, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Two Syrians arrested in Germany for suspected crimes against humanity

Nepal on Wednesday approved a third extension for commissions tasked with probing crimes committed during its decade-long civil war, promising changes to make the hamstrung bodies effective.

Nepal extends deadline for war crimes investigations

Survivors can have some comfort in knowing the man who ordered and oversaw the atrocities will spend the rest of his life in prison

Opinion: Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', to spend life in prison

Team appointed by PM?Wickremesinghe suggests foreign involvement to probe war crimes in the civil war that ended in 2009, President opposes

Divide in Sri Lanka as panel backs foreign judges to probe war crimes

Kosovo's government has said it is trying to resolve the issue

Former Kosovo Prime Minister arrested in France

It will not include fighters guilty of war crimes or human rights violations

Colombia Congress approves amnesty law for FARC rebels

The vote to establish an evidence-gathering body won 105-15, with countries like China, Russia and Iran opposed to the measure

UN to set up Syria war crimes panel

France claims that Russian and Syrian forces have committed war crimes in Aleppo

France to seek International Criminal Court options for war crimes investigation in Syria

Mir Quasem Ali was hanged at 10.30pm on Saturday, authorities said

Bangladesh: Jamaat-linked tycoon executed for 1971 war crimes

Warning that food will soon run out, UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien called for 48-hour weekly pauses for deliveries of essential supplies

UN Security Council backs call for Aleppo truce

Five others were given life imprisonment. The suspects from Jamalpur region were accused of murder, abduction, torture and loot

Bangladesh: Three awarded death penalty for 1971 war crimes

US, along with other countries, has long demanded an international investigation into the killing of thousands of Tamils

US acknowledges complications in Sri Lanka war crimes investigation

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