war crimes
US calls UN's war crimes report on Yemen 'concerning'
A Saudi-led coalition battling in Yemen on Wednesday dismissed as inaccurate a report by United Nations investigators that highlighted possible war crimes by all sides in the…
Video: Bemba's victims angry at his return to DR Congo
Victims of former Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba’s militia in the Central African Republic are indignant about his acquittal by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for…
20 years on, ICC urges all nations to fight war crimes
The International Criminal Court marked its 20th anniversary on Tuesday with a plea for all nations to help it seek justice for victims of war crimes, weeks after the acquittal…
Eye On Africa
ICC overturns war crimes conviction of Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba
A former Congolese vice president has his convictions for war crimes overturned. Jean-Pierre Bemba had previously been sentenced for failing to stop rapes and murders committed…
ICC overturns murder, rape, pillage convictions of DR Congo ex-VP Bemba
International Criminal Court appeals judges have overturned the convictions of former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba for atrocities committed by his forces in Central…
Iraqi refugee held in France on suspicion of IS group war crimes
An Iraqi asylum-seeker is in French custody on preliminary charges of war crimes and terrorism amid reports that he was a senior figure in the Islamic State group.
Liberia's ‘Jungle Jabbah’ jailed for 30 years in US
A former Liberian warlord known as “Jungle Jabbah” was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for gaining US asylum by lying about his role in the civil war in his homeland…
The Interview
Head of UN entity probing war crimes in Syria speaks to FRANCE 24
French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel is the head of the UN entity investigating serious crimes in Syria, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM). As the panel…
Congo's Bemba loses bribery appeal, faces new sentence
War crimes judges at The Hague on Thursday rejected an appeal by former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba against a bribery conviction, calling instead for a new jail…
Chemical weapons used in Eastern Ghouta, UN says
Air strikes by Russia and a U.S.-led coalition killed civilians in Syria on a large scale last year, while the Assad government carried out unlawful chemical weapon attacks in…
Top Kosovo Serb politician killed in drive-by shooting
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic was shot dead in a brazen drive-by shooting on Tuesday that sparked fears of a resumption of ethnic tensions in the volatile…
In The Papers
‘Regional tension, not reconciliation’ after Bosnian Croat war crimes ruling
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS - Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017: Croatian papers react after Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak publicly poisoned himself in a UN court. While some applaud…