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WAR CRIMES

Firefighters work at a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 11, 2025
Trump funding freeze threatens Ukraine probe of alleged Russian war crimes
At stake are six U.S.-funded projects at the Prosecutor General's Office valued at $89 million, according to a Ukrainian document on the U.S. funding and cuts.
Tomoko Akane, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Tokyo in June 2024.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2025
ICC president condemns U.S. order enabling sanctions on staff
The order allows the U.S. government to impose sanctions such as an asset freeze and a travel ban on ICC staff and their families.
The International Criminal Court building
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Feb 8, 2025
'Existential threat': What next for the ICC after U.S. sanctions?
Experts say the sanctions announced by Trump will have a wide-reaching impact on the court.
The rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia on Jan. 30
WORLD / Society
Feb 7, 2025
Trump call for Gazan exit echoes in destroyed homes
The war has stopped after 16 months, but the destruction left in its wake leaves Palestinians in a daily battle of trying to decide whether to stay or go.
A Palestinian man searches for the graves and bodies of his father, brother and brother-in-law at Shejaia cemetery, which was flattened by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2025
Bereaved Gazans dig out bodies from city ruins and give them graves
Burials are usually carried out within a few hours of death in Muslim and Arab communities, and failure to ensure dignified burials is agonizing for families.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on houses in Gaza City on Jan. 4
WORLD / Politics / EXPLAINER
Jan 16, 2025
How many Palestinians has Israel's Gaza offensive killed?
The official Palestinian Health Ministry count of more than 46,600 Palestinian dead is disputed by Israeli officials but is seen by the U.N. as an undercount.
Footage released in December by the Israeli Army shows Israeli soldiers operating in a location given as the Golan Heights. Under new rules, media interviewing soldiers of the rank of colonel and under cannot display their full names or faces.
WORLD
Jan 10, 2025
Israeli military tightens media rules over legal action concern
The full names and faces of soldiers of the rank of colonel and under are not to be displayed by the media under the new rules.
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 10, 2025
Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, peer-reviewed study estimates
New study used data from Gaza's health ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to reach a best estimate of 64,260 deaths by June 30 last year.
An armed police officer patrols near the Ministry of Defense in London in 2016.
WORLD
Jan 8, 2025
U.K. special forces soldiers tell inquiry of Afghan murder concerns
The investigation is examining a number of nighttime raids carried out by British forces from mid-2010 to mid-2013.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, attends a meeting in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on June 8, 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2025
Daglo, the feared Darfuri general accused by the U.S. of genocide
The paramilitary commander went from feared Darfur militia commander to de facto vice-president before unleashing a devastating war for power in Sudan.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on houses, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jan 5, 2025
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks begin
A renewed push is underway to reach a ceasefire and return Israeli hostages before Donald Trump returns to the U.S. Presidency.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 4.
WORLD
Dec 31, 2024
As Gaza suffers, experts call on hunger monitor to redefine famine
Many food-security experts, aid workers and doctors say famine took hold in Gaza many months ago.
The ancient city of Hatra, Iraq, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2024
Why cultural heritage must be protected in wartime
Attacks on cultural sites are acts of cultural erasure, born of the same eliminationist motives that also drive genocide.
A rescuer of the State Emergency Service works to put out a fire in a private house after a drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Dec 26, 2024
Russia launches 'inhuman' Christmas Day attacks, Ukraine says
Half a million people in the Kharkiv region were left without heating, in temperatures just a few degrees Celsius above zero.
The entrance to Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo on Dec. 1
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2024
Chinese man sentenced for vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine
According to the ruling, Jiang Zhuojun, 29, conspired with two other Chinese men to write "toilet" in red spray paint on a pillar at the shrine.
People take shelter at a metro station in Kyiv during an air raid alert amid Russia's attack on Ukraine on Wednesday.
WORLD
Dec 25, 2024
Ukraine reports massive Christmas Day attack by Russia
Russian missiles killed at least one person and damaged energy infrastructure across the country, officials said.
Smoke rises following an Israeli strike near the Indonesian Hospital that ran out of fuel and electricity, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 12, 2023.
WORLD
Dec 25, 2024
Israeli army forces patients out of north Gaza hospital, medics say
Israel says its operation around the three northern Gaza communities surrounding the hospital is targeting Hamas militants.
Orthopedic surgeon Mohammed al-Hanash sits at his clinic in Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 24, 2024
Syrian medics say were coerced into false chemical attack testimony
The medics, who treated the wounded at a field hospital near Damascus after the April 7, 2018, attack, said they were coerced into giving false testimony.
Mourners pray during the funeral for Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD
Dec 23, 2024
Order to evacuate Gaza hospital 'next to impossible' to obey: medics
The hospital is one of the few still partially functioning in the northern edge of Gaza, an area under intense Israeli military pressure for nearly three months.
Palestinians inspect the damage at a tent camp sheltering displaced people, following an Israeli strike in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Dec 16, 2024
Israeli forces carry out air and ground attacks in Gaza; dozens dead
Israel's air and land offensive that has killed almost 45,000 people, mostly civilians, according to authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

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