"Now it's the U.S. which is blocking the consensus to apply the law," one former ICC chief prosecutor told Newsweek.

Thirty-five of the 123 nations that are party to the International Criminal Court have ratified the crime-of-aggression amendments, including Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Uruguay and Botswana.

The Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him The ...

The ICC also called for the arrest, for the same reason considered a war crime, of Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, presidential commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia, the court based in The ...

Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice ...

Elizabeth Warren, even went so far as to say that Israel’s actions in Gaza could legally be considered a genocide ... been used in the perpetration of war crimes (or, worse, genocide) in ...

said there were several ways in which the attack could be considered a war crime under international law. Loading These include whether the Israel Defence Forces had behaved recklessly by failing ...

Since then he has embarked on an uncompromising agenda in which he has declared “war” on more than 20 criminal gangs he ... embassies are generally considered protected spaces.