#War Crimes

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Once seen as a war hero, Australian ex-soldier will stand trial for alleged war crimes — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Until a few years ago, Ben Roberts-Smith was one of Australia's most celebrated war heroes. But now, he will stand trial for alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan.

  Related: #Military Accountability, #Justice System
• 🇺🇸 Trial of Syrian man accused of torture during Syria's civil war begins in the Netherlands — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The 58-year-old, identified as Rafiq al Q. due to Dutch privacy regulations, claims he is being conspired against.

  Related: #International Justice, #Syrian Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Israel’s displacement of civilians in Lebanon is a possible war crime — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The Israeli tactics of mass expulsion of Lebanese civilians risk directly violating international law.

  Related: #Middle East Conflict
• 🇺🇸 The Gaza Tribunal: A question of complicity — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  What role has the UK played in Israel’s war on Gaza? We meet those who say it’s complicit in atrocities committed there.

  Related: #Accountability
• 🇬🇧 French IS member convicted of genocide for atrocities against Yazidis — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Sabri Essid was also found guilty of crimes against humanity after harrowing evidence from women enslaved by jihadist</p><p>A French member of Islamic State has been convicted of<a href="https://ww...

  Related: #International Justice
• 🇺🇦 The Russian opposition group helping find Ukrainian civilians captured by Russia — 18/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  When Ukrainian citizens are captured and disappeared into Russian prisons, their families and government often have no way to reach them, let alone help. Yet, behind the scenes, a network of pro-dem...

  Related: #Human Rights
• 🇬🇧 We can’t stand by while children are killed in war | Letters — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Readers respond to Gordon Brown’s article about the effects of war on children following the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran</p><p>We welcome Gordon Brown’s powerful focus on...

  Related: #Child Protection
• 🇺🇸 Israeli attacks on Lebanon may amount to war crimes, UN rights office says — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  'Deliberately attacking civilians, civilian objects amounts to war crime,' UN says after resurgence in Israeli strikes.

  Related: #Middle East Conflict
• 🇺🇸 UN report says Israeli airstrike on Iran prison is a war crime — 17/03/2026 [USA] Related: #International Law
• 🇺🇦 EU sanctions 9 Russians for war crimes committed in Bucha — 16/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Over 1,400 civilians were killed in the Bucha District during Russia's occupation between February and March 2022

  Related: #International Sanctions
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine war latest: 'Murders for the sake of Russian propaganda' — Ukraine identifies 13 collaborators accused of war crimes in Izium — 13/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Key developments on March 13: &apos;Murders for the sake of Russian propaganda&apos; — Ukraine identifies 13 collaborators accused of war crimes in Izium Bus driver killed in Russian drone strike ...

  Related: #Collaboration
• 🇺🇦 'Murders for sake of Russian propaganda' — Ukraine identifies 13 collaborators accused of war crimes in Izium — 13/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  "They thought the occupation would hide their faces, but they were wrong," Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.

  Related: #Collaboration
• 🇺🇸 Italy's Meloni condemns 'massacre' at Iranian school, says war 'outside' international law — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday condemned the strikes on an Iranian elementary school amid growing discontent from European leaders about ongoing joint U.S.-Israeli military operati...

  Related: #International Condemnation
• 🇺🇦 Utility shutoffs in occupied Mariupol used to facilitate property confiscation, Ukraine says — 11/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Ukraine says Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol are cutting off utilities to apartments as part of a process to identify and seize homes.

  Related: #Property Seizure
• 🇺🇦 Удар по маршрутці в Херсоні: кількість постраждалих сягнула 20 — 11/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  У Херсоні різко збільшилася кількість постраждалих внаслідок удару російського безпілотника по маршрутці в Дніпровському районі міста. Про це повідомили в МВА. Нині відомо про 20 постраждалих через ат...

  Related: #Civilian Casualties
• 🇺🇦 Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds — 11/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a United Nations (UN) investigation published on March ...

  Related: #International Law
• 🇬🇧 Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children has been visible from the outset, the UN says.

  Related: #Human Rights
• 🇬🇧 Ex-Syrian colonel appears in UK court on charges of crimes against humanity — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Salem Al-Salem faces landmark trial over alleged role in crackdown on protests in Damascus in 2011</p><p>A former Syrian colonel has appeared in a London court to face charges of crimes against hum...

  Related: #International Justice
• 🇺🇸 Russia’s deportations of Ukrainian children amount to crimes against humanity, UN inquiry finds — 10/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 In ‘Hell’s Army,’ Intrepid Journalists Investigate Brutal Wagner Group, Russia’s Merciless Mercenary Army – CPH:DOX — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: At the height of its power, the Russian mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group numbered tens of thousands of soldiers who were dispatched to Ukraine, Syria, and several African countrie...

  Related: #Investigative Journalism
• 🇬🇧 Alleged Syrian war criminal living in UK named — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A former Syrian colonel living in the UK can be named for the first time after he appeared in court accused of murder as a crime against humanity.

  Related: #Immigration, #Justice
• 🇬🇧 ‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks on farming communities by the Rapid Support Forces were intended to prevent villages producing food</p><p></p><p>There is strong evid...

  Related: #Humanitarian Crisis
• 🇬🇧 Syrian who fled to UK charged with crimes against humanity over violent crackdown — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Former intelligence officer charged with murder and torture in first prosecution of its kind in England and Wales</p><p>A former Syrian intelligence officer who fled to the UK has been charged with...

  Related: #International Justice
• 🇬🇧 Man in UK charged with crimes against humanity in Syria — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The 58-year-old man has been charged in relation to his time working in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence.

  Related: #International Justice
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine war latest: Russian attack kills 11 in Kharkiv, including 2 children — 08/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Key developments on March 7-8 Russian attack kills 11 in Kharkiv, including 2 children Ukraine halts Russian offensive toward Zaporizhzhia, killing, injuring 300 Russian troops, HUR claims Ukrain...

  Related: #Civilian Casualties
• 🇺🇸 Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  Suffering in Gaza and occupied West Bank remains acute as the world focuses on the US-Israeli war on Iran.

  Related: #Humanitarian Crisis
• 🇺🇦 The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit marks 3 years — 06/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  The War Crimes Investigations Unit of the Kyiv Independent marks its third anniversary today: three years of documenting, exposing, and investigating war crimes committed during Russia’s full-scale in...

  Related: #Journalism
• 🇺🇦 Inside a Ukrainian prison for women who sided with Russia — 06/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainian courts have convicted thousands of people of collaboration and treason. The Kyiv Independent’s Kateryna Hodunova and Olena Zashko report ...

  Related: #Justice System
• 🇺🇸 Iranian Ambassador to UN calls US-Israeli attacks a ‘war crime’ — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani denounced US-Israeli military strikes across the country.

  Related: #International Relations, #Conflict, #Humanitarian Crisis, #Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers

  Related: #Gender-Based Violence, #Human Rights