war crimes

Illustrative: This Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 photo, provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), shows medical staff treating a man suffering from breathing difficulties inside a hospital in Aleppo, Syria (Aleppo Media Center via AP)

September 12, 2018, 3:16 pm

Assad used chemical weapons in three attacks this year — UN report

Investigators say chlorine strikes, some of which utilized Iranian artillery, constitute war crimes

By AFP

Illustrative: Presiding Judge Robert Fremr, center, stands in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the closing statements of the trial of Bosco Ntaganda, a Congo militia leader, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday Aug. 28, 2018. (Bas Czerwinski/Pool via AP)

September 11, 2018, 4:05 pm

International court ‘undeterred’ after US sanctions threat

ICC vows to continue its work in accordance with ‘the overarching idea of the rule of law,’ after US warns it not to go after Americans, Israel, or US allies

By AFP and TOI staff

US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, speaks to the Federalist Society in Washington DC on September 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)

September 11, 2018, 2:27 am

US relationship with international court crashes under Trump

Longtime suspicions about the UN tribunal spill into open hostility as White House threatens to sanction ICC judges if US troops in Afghanistan probed for war crimes

By Matthew Lee

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Ryad al-Malki attends the Arab League Foreign Ministers meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on May 17, 2018. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP)

May 21, 2018, 5:24 pm

Palestinian Authority foreign minister to press ICC on war crimes probe

Riyad al-Malki set for talks with chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda days after saying Palestinians would urge court to prosecute Israel over West Bank settlements

By AFP

A view of the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit on February 14, 2018. (AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

May 15, 2018, 12:27 am

Palestinians to file war crimes complaint in Hague over settlements

Move announced by Saeb Erekat comes amid Palestinian outrage over US embassy opening in Jerusalem, deadly clashes on Gaza border

By Agencies and TOI staff

Public Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, right, waits for alleged jihadist leader Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud to enter the court room for his initial appearance on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. After his capture in Mali, the court in The Hague said that Al Hassan allegedly committed the crimes in Timbuktu while the town was under the control of extremists between April 2012 and January 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

April 8, 2018, 8:29 pm

Israel and Hamas may both be violating international law at Gaza fence, ICC says

International court’s chief prosecutor says anyone who engages in or incites to violence ‘is liable to prosecution’

By Raphael Ahren

Kosovo's president Hashim Thaci attends a memorial ceremony in Pristina for missing people from the Kosovo War, on December 30, 2017. (AFP Photo/Armend Nimani)

February 15, 2018, 8:21 am

Kosovo president uses Holocaust to slam international court

Hashim Thaci says setting up tribunal to investigate Kosovar war crimes similar to prosecuting Jews who were persecuted by Nazis

By LLAZAR SEMINI

One of several photographs taken during the deportation of Oswiecim's Jews to death camps and ghettos in the region during the Nazi occupation of Poland. (Auschwitz Jewish Center)

February 3, 2018, 9:23 am

Poland seeks to prosecute 1,600 potential Nazi war criminals

Prosecutors are enlisting the aid of the Interpol in push to locate individuals suspected of committing crimes on Polish soil

By TOI staff

A picture taken on December 24, 2017, shows Syrian baby Karim Abdallah, who lost an eye as well as his mother in government shelling on Ghouta, being pictured inside his family home in the town of Beit Sawa in Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta region. (AFP PHOTO / Amer ALMOHIBANY)

January 27, 2018, 6:37 am

UN chief calls for Syria referral to International Court

Guterres tells Security Council of ‘serious violations,’ including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions

By Edith M. Lederer

An Israeli border policeman takes position during clashes with Palestinians protestors on January 12, 2018 north of Ramallah in the West Bank. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

January 20, 2018, 2:27 pm

Palestinians appeal to ICC to halt alleged Israeli crimes

PA foreign minister urges The Hague’s chief prosecutor to hold Jerusalem accountable for violence and arrests, particularly of children

By TOI staff

This file photo taken on November 3, 2013, in Kosovska Mitrovica shows Oliver Ivanovic, one of the main political leaders of Serbs in northern Kosovo, casting his ballot during local elections. (AFP PHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC)

January 16, 2018, 1:15 pm

Prominent Kosovo Serb politician assassinated

Oliver Ivanovic, charged with war crimes over role in 1990s Kosovo conflict, shot dead at entrance to his party headquarters

By AFP

Eastern Gaza City, six months after 2014's Operation Protective Edge (Aaed Tayeh/ Flash90)

January 8, 2018, 9:49 pm

Hague Criminal Court may open Israel war crimes probe, MKs reportedly told

2014 Gaza war and West Bank settlement construction could be investigated this year, Israel’s National Security Council said to tell Knesset committee

By TOI staff

Chiune Sugihara (seated, center) with family and then foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir in Tokyo, 1985. (courtesy Nobuki Sugihara)

January 4, 2018, 3:09 pm

Japan’s ‘Schindler’: A genuine hero tangled in a web of myth

A peek into the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a WWII diplomat whose humanity gave thousands of Jews a ticket out of Europe – and how it is now used by a remilitarizing government

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

December 22, 2017, 11:04 pm

Man tied to 1944 murder of Jewish teen in Budapest dies at 96

Australia’s Charles Zentai was detained in 2009 after Hungary demanded his extradition in the case, but the request was denied by local authorities

By JTA

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

December 13, 2017, 6:30 pm

Wanted for genocide, Sudan leader welcomed by Erdogan at Jerusalem summit

Omar al-Bashir is alleged by ICC to have committed war crimes in conflict that UN says killed at least 300,000 and displaced more than 2.5 million

By AFP