War crimes

WATCH: Pahlavi announces six demands for int'l community, Iranian diaspora to support protesters

Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi outlined six key demands to rally global support for Iranian activists and protesters, urging a coordinated international effort to weaken the regime.

Anti-Iranian regime protesters in Paris, France, hold banners, including of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi over a background with the Pahlavi royal crest, reading "FREE IRAN," January 18, 2026.
US President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. participate in a roundtable on rural health, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, January 16, 2026.

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace is concerning for Israeli security - opinion

A "Ceasefire in Gaza" banner hangs in the window of an Amnesty International store in Lund, Sweden, June 11, 2024; illustrative.

Murder, rape, and extermination: Hamas guilty of crimes against humanity, Amnesty charges

Cyril Laucci, Lead Counsel for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, a Sudanese national, waits to hear the verdict of the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

ICC sentences Darfur Janjaweed militia leader to 20 years


Sudan's deadly civil war escalates with millions displaced - analysis

Generals and paramilitaries have been fighting over the country and plunged it into disaster. Now there are reports that the RSF have taken Wadi Medani, southeast of Khartoum.

 People fleeing the violence in West Darfur, cross the border into Adre, Chad, August 4, 2023.

How does the ICC view the IDF? Concerns over Gaza war crimes probe

The two most critical issues will be whether the ICC views Israel’s targeting system as legitimate and its legal system of self-prosecution of its own soldiers as legitimate.

 CLEARING RUBBLE in Khan Yunis after a night of IDF shelling, Oct. 10.

The ICC challenge: Should Israel be worried going forward? - analysis

A large number of the challenges Israel faces from the ICC became an issue long before the current war and this past weekend.

 ICC PROSECUTOR Karim Khan visits Kyiv, Ukraine, in Feb. He made last-minute decisions to forgo visiting Gaza, instead making an informal visit to Israel and the West Bank.

US charges four 'Russia-affiliated' military personnel with war crimes for torturing a US citizen

The four allegedly interrogated, severely beat, and tortured the victim as well as threatening to kill the victim and conducting a mock execution.

 US Attorney General Merrick Garland announces US Justice Department anti-trust lawsuit against Google in Washington, January 24, 2023.

Taking hostages is a war crime - opinion

October 7 should prove too flagrant to be ignored by the body that is supposed to be the world’s watchdog on protecting and advancing human rights.

 RELATIVES OF hostages hold a news conference in Tel Aviv last week

Netherlands fights accusation it is complicit in Israeli 'war crimes' in Gaza

Though the Dutch Defense Ministry would not comment on the case, a letter said "it cannot be established that the F-35s are involved in grave violations of the humanitarian laws of war."

 IAF 'Adir' F-35 fighter jets seen escorting US B-52 bombers on November 10, 2022

Don't reward Hamas's war crimes - opinion

Hamas intentionally hides in Gazan hospitals, schools, and homes because it understands, perversely, that a higher Gazan casualty rate will bring about greater international pressure on Israel.

 An Israeli soldier walks through a tunnel underneath Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, November 22, 2023

ELNET plans initiative to expose Hamas crimes against humanity

ELNET will be establishing a Task Force to further advance the truth about Hamas committing crimes against humanity and holding them accountable for their crimes.

Palestinians take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023.

Israel is committing war crimes in Palestinian territories, five nations charge

The ICC already has an ongoing investigation into "the situation in the State of Palestine" for alleged war crimes committed since June 13, 2014.

 Palestinians queue as they wait to buy bread from a bakery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 17, 2023

Five weeks after October 7 attacks, words still fail to capture their extent - opinion

"Inhuman," "savage," "barbarian," "Nazi" - none of these can adequately describe the level of depravity Hamas committed.

 The Israel Antiquities Authority works to find remnants of Hamas victims in Kibbutz Be'eri.