UN team probing alleged Gaza war crimes to leave for Mideast at weekend

GENEVA — A team of U.N. investigators will visit Gaza next week to examine whether Israeli troops and Hamas militants committed war crimes during their three-week conflict, the global body said Friday.

APNewsBreak: US military: 44 cases of militants using, storing white phosphorus in Afghanistan

KABUL — The U.S. accused Afghan militants Monday of using white phosphorus as a weapon in “reprehensible” attacks on U.S. forces and in civilian areas.

Croatian opposition lawmaker convicted of war crimes; sentenced to 10 years in prison

ZAGREB, Croatia — A Croatian court has convicted an opposition lawmaker of war crimes, making him the first senior politician from the country to be held responsible for wartime atrocities against Serbs.

Gunmen kill Darfur peacekeeper during carjacking, 15th UN-AU peacekeeper killed since 2008

CAIRO — Gunmen shot and killed an unarmed peacekeeper outside his home in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, the spokesman for the joint U.N.-African Union mission said Friday.

Court dismisses motion for Charles Taylor’s early acquittal, orders war crimes trial to go on

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges on Monday rejected a request by former Liberian President Charles Taylor for an immediate acquittal on war crimes charges, saying he must answer allegations that he was part of a campaign to terrorize Sierra Leone’s population through murder, rape and mutilation.

War crimes court dismisses motion for Charles Taylor’s early acquittal, orders trial to go on

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — War crimes judges say they have dismissed a motion to acquit former Liberian President Charles Taylor because he may have been responsible for mass murder, rape and mutilations in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war.

Japan donates $4 million to Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal to pay Cambodian staff

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Japan has donated $4.17 million to the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal trying former Khmer Rouge leaders on war crimes charges, just as the troubled court was running out of funding, a court official said Friday.

UN judge rejects Karadzic challenges on jurisdiction, taking a step toward war crimes trial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A judge at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Wednesday rejected challenges by Radovan Karadzic and said the U.N. court had jurisdiction to try him on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

4 Serb ex-policemen guilty of killing 48 Kosovo Albanians; victims included babies, 100-yr-old

BELGRADE, Serbia — A war crimes court on Thursday found four Serbian former policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.

4 Serb ex-policemen guilty of killing 48 Kosovo Albanians; victims included babies, 100-yr-old

BELGRADE, Serbia — A war crimes court on Thursday found four former Serbian policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.

Amnesty: NATO must be held accountable for 1999 Serbia bombing of state TV headquarters

BELGRADE, Serbia — An international human rights group demanded Thursday that NATO be held accountable for civilian casualties in the bombing of Serbia’s state television headquarters a decade ago, calling the attack a “war crime.”

Rights groups seek independent Gaza war crimes probe after Israel’s army clears itself

JERUSALEM — Human rights activists, some charging whitewash, demanded an independent war crimes probe after Israel’s military on Wednesday cleared itself of wrongdoing over civilian deaths in the Gaza war.

Norwegian lawyers file complaint accusing 10 Israelis of Gaza war crimes under new law

OSLO — A group of Norwegian lawyers filed a complaint Wednesday accusing 10 Israelis of war crimes in Gaza under the country’s new universal jurisdiction law, officials said.