A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally...

Israeli war crimes are violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which Israeli...

World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific...

start of the Israel–Hamas war on 7 October 2023, the UN Human Rights Council has identified "clear evidence" of war crimes by both Hamas and the Israel...

numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents...

summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted...

Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military...

and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace...

Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights...

Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official...

Hamas war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, which the Islamist Nationalist organization...

Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals...

During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of...

From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including...

Turkish war crimes are violations of international criminal law (including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide) which the official...

beginning of the Israel–Hamas war in 2023, the Israeli military and authorities have been charged with committing war crimes, such as indiscriminate attacks...

During World War II, the German Wehrmacht (combined armed forces - Heer, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe) committed systematic war crimes, including massacres...

the War Crimes Act War Crimes Act 1991 of the United Kingdom War Crimes Act of 1996 of the United States Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act of...

condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars. The most notable of these...

Massacre, to ascertain the veracity of emerging claims of US war crimes. Of the war crimes reported to military authorities, sworn statements by witnesses...

War crimes in Manchukuo were committed during the rule of the Empire of Japan in northeast China, either directly, or through its puppet state of Manchukuo...

Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law. Starvation...

followed the prosecution in declaring the crime of plotting and waging aggressive war "the supreme international crime" because "it contains within itself the...

War crimes in Afghanistan covers the period of conflict from 1979 to the present. Starting with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, 40 years of...

World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This...

British war crimes are acts committed by the armed forces of the United Kingdom that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions...

all American prisoners of war in Korea died as a result of war crimes". Although the Chinese rarely executed prisoners of war like their North Korean counterparts...

Italian war crimes have mainly been associated with the Kingdom of Italy, Fascist Italy and the Italian Social Republic (both under Benito Mussolini) starting...

The Khabarovsk war crimes trials were the Soviet hearings of twelve Japanese Kwantung Army officers and medical staff charged with the manufacture and...

initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that...