War Crimes - Page 2

Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly made his first visit to occupied Ukrainian territory over the weekend, stopping in Crimea on Saturday and the captive port city of Mariupol on Sunday.

The ICC has issued a warrant for Putin over allegations of war crimes in Ukraine, but the warrant is unenforceable — for now.

The United States government has now officially accused Russia of war crimes. The ICC should investigate — on both sides — even if enforcement is difficult.

The head of NATO has rejected Ukrainian requests for it to be supplied with phosphorous weapons and outlawed cluster bombs.

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko told the U.K. Daily Mail in an article published Wednesday that Ukrainian “intelligence services” were killing Ukrainians suspected of collaborating with the Russian military “like pigs” in areas where Kyiv has pushed back the ongoing invasion.

Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, who also serves as foreign minister, devoted very little of his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to discussing the brutal two-year civil war that heated up again over the past few weeks. He spent no time at all responding to the allegations of war crimes and human rights atrocities against both his government and its adversaries.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops in southern Ukraine have been carrying out torture and kidnappings, and he called on the world Sunday to respond.

BORODIANKA, Ukraine (AP) – Firefighters continued searching Saturday for survivors or the dead in the debris of destroyed buildings in a northern Ukrainian town that was occupied for weeks by Russian forces.

Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a joint report on Wednesday in which they alleged Ethiopia’s federal government has perpetrated “ethnic cleansing … crimes against humanity and war crimes” in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as part of a civil war between Addis Ababa and the separatist militia known as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

There is mounting evidence that Russia is committing war crimes, as President Joe Biden has alleged, but not that it is engaging in genocide, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.

The Biden administration says Putin must be prosecuted for war crimes but has no answer for how that would happen, or the consequences.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has toured the town of Bucha, near Kyiv (Kiev), where retreating Russian forces are alleged to have left murdered civilians in their wake.

Poland’s national conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecky, has publicly upbraided the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, insisting they have achieved nothing.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin has strongly rejected the accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine and pushed for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

The UK Home Office has outright refused to deport a former torturer for the Taliban over fears his ex-comrades would torture him should he return home.

Ukrainian forces have found bodies littering the streets of Bucha, a key town near Kyiv (Kiev), after Russia’s retreat from the region. (Warning: graphic images.)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address on Thursday observing one month of full-scale war with Russia by accusing Russian soldiers of a variety of human rights abuses against civilians, including looting, seizing humanitarian aid, and rape.

Durbin delivered a lengthy defense of Jackson in reference to GOP senators’ questions about her work representing a member of the Taliban.

Kremlin officials delivered a sly blow to U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, responding to his “personal insult” of Vladimir Putin by casting aspersions on his cognitive ability. “We do hear and see statements addressed to President Putin that in

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia on Friday of kidnapping the mayor of the city of Melitopol, equating it to the actions of “ISIS terrorists.”

A verified Ukrainian military account warned that Russian artillerymen trying to surrender would be “slaughtered like pigs” in a now-edited Facebook post after reports of heavy shelling in some cities. 

International observers generally agree Ukraine did well against the first phase of the Russian invasion, thwarting a blitzkrieg apparently intended to decapitate the Ukrainian government in a matter of days.

Warning: Contains Graphic Image. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of committing war crimes after an alleged bombing of a kindergarten.

The Taliban’s Anas Haqqani was reported to Norwegian police for war crimes over the weekend amid a Taliban delegation visiting the country.  

The returned Islamic State woman allegedly recruited her own son into the Islamic State militia, prosecutors say.

Three Islamic State women were flown back to Sweden last week with their children from Syria and arrested for war crimes, but all three have subsequently been released.

Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria.

A 49-year-old Islamic State woman has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of taking part in serious war crimes in Syria, including forcing her own son to become a child soldier.

The Pentagon appears to think the “tragic mistake” was legal. But there are several questions that still remain about the Aug. 29 strike.

Two Islamic State women who returned to Sweden from Syria have been released from police custody after being held on suspicion of engaging in war crimes.

A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.

Prosecutors have charged an Iranian national for war crimes and murder over his role in mass executions on behalf of the Iranian Islamist regime in 1988.

Australian Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, the most decorated living Australian service member, opened his defamation case on Monday against the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the Canberra Times for libeling him with allegations of war crimes committed during his tours in Afghanistan.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany said Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler over a century ago.