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Did the United States commit War Crimes in Iran? A Lawyer Weighs In

There have been reports of an unarmed ship being bombed and civilian objects becoming casualties of American strikes in Iran. The question is, did the United States commit war crimes in its military campaign against Iran?

The Mary Sue

Warnings of international law violation appear as Pete Hegseth calls troops to commit a war crime

What Hegseth said isn't "some wanna be tough guy line."

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‘Israeli snipers shot my sons dead as they crawled towards hospital. We deserve justice’

INVESTIGATION: Exclusive: A new report has revealed potential evidence of Israeli war crimes after three brothers from the al-Aweini family were killed while seeking medical help in Khan Younis. Their parents, in their fifties, were also attacked. Maira Butt investigates how a siege on a hospital left a family grieving

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‘From Gaza to Minab’: Iran shares image of hundreds of graves being dug after 160 dead in school strike

Iran's foreign minister shared a photo of graves, alleging a US-Israeli strike on a girls' school in Minab killed over 150. Iranian authorities described it as a war crime, while the US Central Command stated they are reviewing reports of civilian harm. International law prohibits direct targeting of civilian infrastructure…

The Times of India

This is not 2017. Modi’s Israel visit risks India’s moral position, tests global standing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned two-day visit to Israel starting February 25, which will include an address to the Knesset, comes at a moment of extraordinary international scrutiny for the Israeli government. Far from being a routine diplomatic engagement, the trip risks being read globally as a political endorsement of…

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Sexual violence in the Ukraine war: Seven women break their silence at the Berlinale

They survived Russian imprisonment, torture and sexual violence. In "Traces", seven Ukrainian women tell their story - and transform pain into strength. A documentary about war crimes, dignity and the fight for justice.

Euronews

Legal groups push for Australian federal police to arrest retired general travelling with Israeli president

Doron Almog has previously faced arrest warrants over allegations he committed war crimes in Gaza in 2002, which he denies

The Guardian - AU

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Sudan conflict worsening with mass killings and famine, HRW warns

Sudan’s war has been marked by mass killings, famine and the deliberate blocking of aid as rival forces carried out war crimes across the country, Human Rights Watch said, while the United Nations warned the conflict has become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Radio France Internationale

Families of 2 men killed in boat strike sue Trump administration over attack they call 'unlawful'

Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October are suing the federal government, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U_S_ military campaign.”

The Independent UK

US aircraft that attacked suspected drug boat reportedly disguised as civilian plane

Experts say obscuring plane’s military identity would constitute a war crime

The Guardian - UK

U.S. Military's Reported Use Of Plane That Looked Like a Civilian Aircraft To Strike Alleged Drug Vessels Could Be a War Crime

The U.S. military used a secret plane painted to look like a civilian aircraft to conduct its first attack against an alleged drug vessel last September, according to a new report.

Latin Times

UK, Germany and France call Russia’s Oreshnik attack on Ukraine ‘unacceptable’

Ukraine is investigating Russia’s use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile against civilian infrastructure as a war crime, as the UK, Germany and France called the attack “unacceptable”.

Euronews

‘This is an intellectual war crime’: Trump team moves to dismantle one of the world’s leading climate research labs

‘This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,’ Trump’s OMB director Russell Vought says

The Independent UK

Pentagon won’t release full video of Caribbean strike that killed two people, Hegseth says

Legal experts have raised concerns US forces may have committed a war crime by killing survivors of initial strike

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The Independent UK

The Latest: Hegseth tells congressional leaders he is weighing release of boat strike video

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that legal experts said may have been a war crime or murder, awakening the Republican-controlled Congress to its oversight role

The Independent UK

Right-wing pundit claims that Americans don’t care about Hegseth’s possible ‘war crimes’

Ben Shapiro, a longtime conservative media personality, accused Democrats of using the boat strike report as a ‘distraction’

Latin Times

Democratic Rep. Urges DOJ To Open a War Crimes Investigation On Double-Tap Attack Against Alleged Drug Vessel: 'No Statute Of Limitations'

Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu urged the Department of Justice to open a war crimes investigation regarding the double-tap attack against an alleged drug vessel in September, noting that "if the Trump DOJ does not investigate, a future Administration will because there is no statute of limitations" for such crimes.

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Pete Hegseth, ‘our secretary of war crimes’

Late-night hosts discussed outrage over Hegseth’s authorization of extrajudicial killings near Venezuela and Trump’s cabinet meeting naps

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The Mary Sue

Pete Hegseth tried to turn his alleged war crimes into a meme and it’s only landing him in more trouble

New reports have alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth committed war crimes while carrying out Caribbean boat strikes. His response? Turn it into a meme.

International Business Times UK

MAGA Loyalist Megyn Kelly Defends War Crimes, Says She Wants To See Victims 'Suffer'

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly has publicly welcomed gruesome violence against alleged drug boat traffickers following a controversial US military strike.

The Independent UK

‘War criminal’ Pete Hegseth faces growing criticism from conservatives over ‘kill everybody’ strike

‘This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered,’ Andrew Napolitano, a former Fox News colleague of Hegseth’s, said on Tuesday.

International Business Times UK

'SSecretary Of War': Typo at Trump Meeting Spurs 'Nazi Connection' Accusations

Pete Hegseth faces backlash after an 'SS' typo on his placard sparks Nazi comparisons, while simultaneously defending controversial airstrikes amid war crime accusations.

Euronews

Russia's push for war crimes immunity 'cannot be accepted,’ freed Ukrainian POW tells Euronews

Ukrainian journalist and one of the country's most prominent human rights activists, Maksym Butkevych, spent more than two years in Russian captivity. He told Euronews Moscow is deliberately trying to avoid inevitable responsibility.

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Military on edge over Pete Hegseth ‘kill them all’ war crimes crisis, highest-ranking officer ‘disappears’ from public eye

Are Hegseth's orders leaving officers open to criminal charges?

The Independent UK

Hegseth keeps target on Navy man over lethal ‘narco boat’ strikes with eight-word retort to claim he tossed admiral under bus

The Trump administration appears to be scapegoating a decorated Navy SEAL commander in order to insulate the ‘Secretary of War’ as questions mount over whether US forces committed a war crime

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