Until now, key players had blocked the establishment of a court that could hold them accountable for atrocities like murder, rape and torture.

President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars, characterized by widespread mass ...

Stepan Bandera was the leader of a Ukrainian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s that included a rebel militia which fought alongside invading Nazi forces in World War II ... saying he would ...

and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII.” The subject was U.S. Army psychiatrist Kelley who in the summer of 1945 was assigned to evaluate the mental fitness o detained Nazi leader ...

among others who were awaiting war crimes trials and sentencing at the Nuremberg prison in post-World War II Germany. More than a decade later, El-Hai’s book is being adapted, just about ...

Three decades after the unexplained death of Radislava ‘Dada’ Vujasinovic, who reported on the links between crime and politics ... as a prisoner at the World War II Jasenovac concentration ...

Mr. Manolic’s role in Croatian affairs spanned generations, from the pro-Communist partisans that took power in Yugoslavia after World War II to the ... questioning by war crime investigators ...

Ranging from the development and testing of biological warfare agents to conducting live dissections on victims, the actions of Unit 731 constituted unspeakable crimes against humanity ... bombs ...

The highest-ranking Syrian military official to be tried in Europe on April 15 appeared before a Stockholm court accused of war crimes during ... 2012. The trial is expected to last until late ...

The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 during the country’s civil war opened Monday at a court in Stockholm, Sweden. Mohammed Hamo ...

Otherwise, giving the winners of World War II a right of veto would make no sense. Such an exemption from international law was also evident at the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg and Tokyo ...

I know war crimes when I see them ... Jews from Europe to British-controlled Palestine. This is before World War II, the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. AMY GOODMAN: Yet you say ...