war crimes

Accusations of war crimes have rung loud in recent months, even reaching among the most powerful people in the world.

The Victoria Cross recipient will have to come up with almost $1 million to pursue his defamation appeal over news reports he engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan.

Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to limit defamation evidence viewed by war crime investigators will prevent the contamination of their probe, a court has heard.

A former SAS soldier faces a further wait to see the evidence of his alleged war crime as prosecutors sift through reams of sensitive material.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has slammed the attack as a war crime.

The sole survivor of a wartime atrocity has become the first woman to be commemorated in bronze at the national war memorial.

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith is appealing the loss of his defamation lawsuits after a judge found reports he committed war crimes were substantially true.

Jacqui Lambie told the Senate that military leaders have not been held accountable for alleged war crimes while soldiers have.

The former SAS soldier insisted he did nothing wrong during his service in Afghanistan.

Almost all of the 23 victims of the attack died when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Uman.

The Ukrainian president has vowed those behind the purported atrocities will be held accountable.

Putin appears to have a strong grip on power, and some analysts suspect the the warrant hanging over him could provide an incentive to prolong the fighting.

Dmitry Medvedev denounced the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin.

A woman followed a Ukrainian drone with a paper message to safety after Russians shot her husband.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor believes Russian President Vladimir Putin could stand trial.

International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the Russian President for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children.

The damning report is a highly unusual condemnation of a member of the UN Security Council.

The grisly footage apparently showed the execution of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian speakers.

March 3, 2022, was the last time anyone saw Arina. She's one of 345 Ukrainian children who have disappeared since Russia invaded.

The United States has determined Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris has announced, insisting "justice must be served" to the perpetrators.

US Vice President Kamala Harris said Washington has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, and insisted that "justice must be served" to the perpetratrors.

Prince Harry has been accused of war crimes by the Iranian regime after boasting about the number of Taliban fighters he killed in Afghanistan in his recently released book.

Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble following a Russian missile strike, amid one of the biggest assaults on the capital, since the war began.

The Russian president indicated there would be no let up in attacks against Ukraine.

In a basement in eastern Ukraine, young men sit at a long table strewn with laptops, their eyes glued to a television screen an arm's length away.

Russian soldiers must be held accountable for raping Ukrainian women, the country's first lady, Olena Zelenska, said.

Kremlin forces are reported to have laid thousands of landmines to ambush advancing Ukrainian forces in Kherson.

Ukraine wants Anton Krasovsky put on trial for inciting genocide.

The Ukrainian government has accused the Russian military of running a "mini Auschwitz" after a "torture chamber" was allegedly found in recaptured territory.

United Nations experts have said that Russian forces committed war crimes during the conflict in Ukraine, including cases of rape and torture of children.

A Ukrainian politician has shared video on social media showing apparent incendiary weapons falling from the sky over a village in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian authorities say they found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city previously occupied by Russian force

Emergency services say 24 people, including one child, may still be under the rubble

Dutch authorities say they have thwarted an attempt by a Russian spy to gain access to the International Criminal Court by posing as an intern.

Russian forces have been accused of detaining about 600 people in underground 'torture chambers'.

Russian soldiers shot dead three civilians as they delivered humanitarian aid to a Ukrainian town, witnesses say.

It has been three months since Russia invaded Ukraine and unleashed death and destruction on a vast scale.

New satellite imagery taken over the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has shown Russian forces digging mass graves, a military expert said.

Russia threatened to put some of the captured Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol on trial for war crimes.

The 21-year-old could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window four days into the invasion.

But this Ukrainian man believes he was allowed to cheat death so he might speak for all those who cannot.

Razor-sharp, inch-long flechettes are a brutal invention of World War I when the Allies used them to strike as many enemy soldiers as possible.

Ukraine's top prosecutor has disclosed plans for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said she was shot in the head by Israeli forces in Jenin, and confirmed her death shortly afterwards.

In one room, those who survived wrote the names of the 18 who didn't.

'It's become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian,' he said

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has called the reported use of chemical weapons by Russia in Ukraine "a further wholesale breach of international law".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the situation in the town of Borodianka is "much scarier" than that in Bucha.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the world organisation's leading human rights body.

The adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin have been thrust into the spotlight after being hit with US sanctions.