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Nuremberg trials: 75 years on from world's first war crimes tribunal

Nuremberg: How the world's first war crimes trial revealed the scale of the Nazi Holocaust

Kosovo

Kosovo's president Hashim Thaçi resigns to face war crimes charges

Hashim Thaçi, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, resigned on Thursday in order to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Two suspects detained over wartime killing of 78 civilians in Bosnia

Authorities in Bosnia have detained two people suspected of taking part in the killing of at least 78 civilians during the 1992-95 war, according to the prosecutor's office.

World News

First Kosovar Albanian arrested on war crimes charges

A special international court said Thursday that a former commander of the separatist fighters in Kosovo's 1998-1999 war has been arrested on charges including torture of detainees and the murder of one prisoner held at a compound in Kosovo during the conflict.

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Netherlands

First Kosovar Albanian arrested on war crimes charges

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, based in The Hague, said on Thursday that former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Salih Mustafa had been arrested but did not mention on what charges.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia arrests seven former military officers over wartime killings

A total of nine people are suspected of the September 1992 crime in Sokolac, according to Bosnia's prosecutor's office.

Cambodia

Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, guilty of war crimes, dies at 77

Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Sudan

Sudan unearths mass grave likely linked to foiled 1990 coup

A mass grave containing the bodies of slain army officers linked to a failed 1990 coup against former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been unearthed.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Srebrenica: World leaders urged to counter Serbian genocide denial

In the 25 years since the Srebrenica massacre, some Serb leaders haven't fully accepted responsibility and deny that genocide took place in Bosnia in 1995.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

'Lessons learned' after Srebrenica massacre, former UN judge says

Judge Carmel Agius, the last president of the UN court examining atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, says justice is only a partial solution to war crimes.

Kosovo

White House talks over Kosovo-Serbia in doubt after war crime charges

The Office of the Special Prosecutor in the Hague says Thaci and nine others “are criminally responsible for nearly 100 murders” of political opponents and Kosovar Albanian, Serb and Roma victims.

Argentina

France extradites 'butcher' of Argentina dictatorship

The ex-police officer from Argentina, who has lived for more than three decades in France, was extradited for crimes during the military dictatorship.

France

French firm Lafarge cleared of Syria war crimes complicity charge

The industrial giant is still accused of financing terror groups including IS as it tried to keep its Syrian plant open amid the conflict.

Syria

UN to probe attacks on humanitarian sites in northwestern Syria

It follows pleas by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who said airstrikes by the Syrian government and its ally Russia have hit schools, hospitals and markets, killing scores of civilians in Idlib province, the country's last rebel stronghold.

Netherlands

Alleged Islamic State militant on trial in Netherlands for war crimes

A Dutch-born alleged Islamic State fighter was brought before a court in the Netherlands on Monday.

USA

Navy SEAL medic admits killing young, injured IS captive

Scott, the medic in question was in fact not the Navy SEAL defendant on trial for war crimes for the killing of this same IS fighter.

Germany

Exclusive: Militant suspected of letting Yazidi girl die is arrested

Exclusive: Militant fighter suspected of letting Yazidi girl 'die of thirst' arrested in Greece

Libya

Euroviews. Europe's inaction on the civil war in Libya will bring crisis to our shores ǀ View

It isn’t hard to see why Ghassan Salamé accused the global community of lacking the ‘moral motivation’ to end the Libyan civil war. After all, his comments followed Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a warlord and dictator-in-the-making.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ex-Bosnian Serb chief Karadzic's sentence increased to life in prison

Karadzic was appealing a 2016 verdict in which he was given a 40-year sentence for the Srebrenica massacre in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Germany

German archeologists unearth 400 artefacts from Nazi mass murder site

More than 200 forced labourers were killed by Nazi troops in March 1945 in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia. Only 14 have been identified.