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Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have committed a war crime if a report claiming that survivors of a strike against an alleged drug vessels were finished off with a second attack.

Inarguably a war crime.

Nearly one million hectares of land in Ukraine have gone up in smoke this year as the Russian invasion turns forests into battlefields and leaves nature badly scarred. The fires follow the front line, raise fears of war crimes and add to a growing climate bill.

In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes

Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer made the plea in his speech to the party’s conference in Edinburgh.

Earlier this month, former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder.

The US vice-president, J.D. Vance, recently declared that he “doesn’t give a shit” if the Trump administration’s strike on a suspected Venezuelan gang boat is called a “war crime”. In a speech to hundreds of senior US military officers weeks later, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, then called for troops…

A prosecutor has told a court an Australian soldier charged with a war crime in Afghanistan won't stand trial until at least 2027

National security concerns are threatening to delay a landmark war crimes trial for more than a year as a former soldier pleads not guilty to murder.