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...

This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II. The Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan) were some of the most systematic...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

"Yemen: Attack on Refugee Boat Likely War Crime". Human Rights Watch. 26 March 2017. "The UN's Timid Responses to War Crimes Against Children". Human Rights...

Italian war crimes have mainly been associated with Fascist Italy in the Pacification of Libya, the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War, and...

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...

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...

other war crimes, including sexual violence. A UN Commission to the Israel–Palestine conflict stated that there is "clear evidence that war crimes may have...

A war crimes trial is the trial of persons charged with criminal violation of the laws and customs of war and related principles of international law...

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

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

and Korea were occupied, and war crime tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders. The causes of the war are debated; contributing factors...