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Pete Hegseth dismisses Geneva Conventions as ‘stupid rules’, wants U.S. to commit war crimes

Hegseth says he plans to untie the hands of the US Army.

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Former Congolese president Kabila sentenced to death for war crimes

Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday by a military court in Kinshasa. The court found him guilty of treason, war crimes and organising an armed insurrection over his alleged collaboration with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.

Radio France Internationale

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger jointly announce withdrawal from the ICC

The three member states of the Alliance of Sahel States have announced their immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court, accusing the ICC of practising “selective justice”. The declaration was made simultaneously on Monday in the capitals of Bamako, Niamey and Ouagadougou.

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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war

The Australian War Memorial is in the news for reportedly retrospectively changing the rules of its Les Carlyon prize for military history. This resulted in it not being awarded to Walkley award-winning journalist Chris Masters’ book about disgraced special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

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Colombia peace court sentences former FARC leaders for their role in thousands of kidnappings

Colombia’s peace tribunal has issued its first sentence on war crimes from decades of conflict

The Independent UK

Zohran Mamdani says as mayor he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he traveled to New York

Mayoral candidate said he’d try to honor ICC warrant for Israeli prime minister’s arrest over war crimes

The Guardian - US

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith

Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book

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Pro-Palestine activists call for arrest of Israeli president during UK visit

Campaign group accuses Isaac Herzog, arriving in UK this week, of aiding and abetting indiscriminate killing in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

ICC opens war crimes hearing against Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony

Kony faces charges for the Lord’s Resistance Army campaign of torture and abuse in Uganda in the early 2000s.

Al Jazeera

ICC opening its war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony

International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing

The Independent UK

ICC Hears Charges Against Ugandan Warlord Kony

The International Criminal Court opens war crimes hearings Tuesday against Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan rebel chief whose Lord's Resistance Army was responsible for murdering and kidnapping tens of thousands.

International Business Times

Ukraine war briefing: Putin awards ‘courage’ medal to Russian general sought by ICC over alleged crimes against humanity in Ukraine

Army chief of staff Valery Gerasimov is accused of war crimes for directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects in Ukraine under an arrest warrant from the international criminal court. What we know on day 1,294

The Guardian - AU

ICC opens war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony

The International Criminal Court will open hearings against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, in a landmark step for international justice nearly two decades after issuing its first-ever arrest warrant for him.

Radio France Internationale

ICC To Hear War Crimes Charges Against Fugitive Warlord Kony

The International Criminal Court will from Tuesday hear war crimes charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, accused of spearheading a brutal reign of terror that killed tens of thousands.

International Business Times

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Joseph Kabila is on trial for treason in the DRC. What the case against the former president is all about

The Congolese military court has accused former president Joseph Kabila of treason, corruption, war crimes and supporting the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group. During court proceedings that began in July 2025, arguments were made for utilising the death penalty against Kabila, who was in power from 2001 to 2019.…

The Guardian - UK

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry

Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims

The National (Scotland)

Foreign Office bosses 'asked me to downplay Israeli war crimes', says ex-official

A FORMER Foreign Office official has claimed bosses told him to downplay Israel’s war crimes in Gaza so they “sounded less bad”.

Al Jazeera

UN suspects all sides in DR Congo conflict guilty of war crimes

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk calls for accountability for victims of ‘horrific’ atrocities.

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Corbyn-led tribunal accuses UK of complicity in Gaza genocide

Keir Starmer’s government is guilty of aiding Israel war crimes, experts at unofficial inquiry suggest.

The National (Scotland)

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading genocide academics say

ISRAEL has engaged in “widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide” in Gaza, the world’s foremost experts have said ...

The Independent UK

‘We fear we are next’: Palestinian journalists in Gaza targeted by Israeli smear campaigns

SPECIAL REPORT: The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that more reporters are at risk of being killed by Israeli ‘war crimes’ after the death of Independent Arabia journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna hear from those whose work places them firmly in the firing line

Evening Standard

History in the making: inside the Nuremberg trials

Uwe Neumahr’s The Writers’ Castle, translated by Jefferson Chase, is about the reporting of the Nuremberg war crimes trial in 1945-6. The title refers to a mock castle outside Nuremberg where most journalists lived and worked when not in the courtroom. (A number who didn’t get in wrote as if…

The Guardian - UK

EU accuses Putin of undermining peace talks after deadly strikes on Kyiv

All member states except Hungary back statement saying Russian ‘war crimes’ only increase EU support for Ukraine

The Guardian - US

US soldiers could be liable for war crimes in Gaza. Will they be prosecuted?

Human Rights Watch says US military personnel could face criminal prosecution for assisting Israel’s war in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Gaza: the questions that Israel and its allies must answer

Editorial: Each day, the evidence of war crimes amasses. Yet the starvation continues and the offensive intensifies

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