The Justice Department is pressing the State Department to designate Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group alleged to be responsible for hundreds of deaths, as a "foreign terrorist organisation."
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Wednesday witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and described the international court system as a tool of
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argued in summing up Tuesday that two Congolese ex-militia leaders are guilty of a bloody massacre of villagers that claimed more than 200 lives.
The Hague war crimes prosecutor announced new charges on Monday against a Democratic Republic of Congo general accused of conscripting child fighters and an arrest warrant for a militia leader.
In its latest attempt to postpone Wednesday’s trial of the former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs, the defence team for Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his war crimes trial, saying delays by
As a UN court begins its last trial against Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic this week, thousands of suspects remain to be tried for atrocities committed during a decade of Balkans wars.
Ugandan troops have captured a senior member of the Lord's Resistance Army in a milestone arrest that could signal they are closing in on notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony.
A Bangladeshi special court on Sunday indicted a former opposition leader for alleged atrocities including genocide and murder during the nation's 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan.
Lawyers defending convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor on Thursday sought a lesser sentence than the 80 years requested by the prosecution, which they said was "excessive." by Lauren Comiteau in Hilversum
Last month, Ivoirians across the country commemorated the first anniversary of former President Laurent Gbagbo’s arrest.