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Witnesses: 3 killed, others raped by Guinea army
A military crackdown on protesters in a remote Guinean town this week left three people dead and dozens more wounded, while at least three women were ...
UN court convicts Bosnian Serb of genocide
A U.N. war crimes court convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key role in Europe's worst massacre ...
Former veterans pay respect to victims in Bosnia
Veterans from opposite sides of the brutal Balkan wars of the 1990s paid their respects Saturday to the victims of the worst massacre in Europe since ...
Afghan killings case testing military system
The U.S. military has been criticized for its spotty record on convicting troops of killing civilians, but a hearing against Army Staff Sgt.
Expert: 4 people's blood on Afghan spree suspect
A U.S. Army DNA expert testified Thursday that the soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians during a nighttime rampage last March had the ...
Defense set to begin in Afghan massacre case
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was largely calm and compliant when he turned himself in following a predawn massacre at two Afghan villages in March, ...
Officials: New mass graves found in Ivory Coast
Up to 10 new mass graves have been discovered near the site of a July attack on a camp for displaced people, officials said Tuesday, amid allegations ...
Prosecutor: US soldier had blood of victims on him
The caped figure on the surveillance video came running out of the darkness to the edge of a remote Army outpost in southern Afghanistan. Blood was ...
Hearing begins for suspect in Afghanistan massacre
The U.S. soldier accused of carrying out one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is due to appear in a military courtroom Monday, ...
Karadzic denies claims he masterminded killings
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic cast himself as a "mild man, a tolerant man" as he opened his defense Tuesday in his long-running genocide ...
German prosecutors shelve Nazi massacre probe
Prosecutors in Germany said Monday they have shelved their investigation of 17 former German SS soldiers who were part of a unit involved in a Nazi ...
Bosnian forensic experts search mass grave
Forensic experts have found 10 bodies as they began to excavate a mass grave where Muslim Bosniaks killed during the 1995 massacre in the eastern town ...
Massacre of preachers in Mali sign of broken army
It was dusk when the aging Toyota pickup truck pulled into the first military checkpoint, loaded with at least 17 bearded men fingering prayer beads.
Suspect in Guatemala killings extradited to US
A former Guatemalan soldier accused of taking part in a massacre during that country's civil war more than a quarter century ago has been extradited ...
Jailing made Colombian relive kidnapping trauma
Sigifredo Lopez personally paid the cost of Colombia's bloody civil war when he was kidnapped by rebels along with 11 other legislators, held captive ...
AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of ...
Kin of Muslim preachers slain in Mali seek answers
Relatives of some of the 16 preachers from a moderate Muslim sect who were allegedly killed by Malian soldiers in a "barbaric massacre" went to the ...
Turkey to press for safe zone in Syria
There is no better lesson about the perils of setting up a safe zone in a country in conflict than Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serbs killed some 8,000 ...
Evidence mounts of new massacre in Syria
Row upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with ...
Mass burials in Damascus town amid massacre report
Dozens of bloodied bodies were buried Sunday in mass graves in a Damascus suburb where activists claim more than 300 people have been killed over the ...
UN panel concludes war crimes perpetrated in Syria
The killings took place under a late spring sun. The squads poured into the Syrian village of Houla on foot and in vehicles: cars, minivans and ...
Syrian rebels accused of executions, other abuses
The unsteady, hand-held video shows several bloodied prisoners, one in boxer shorts, being led into a noisy outdoor crowd and placed against a wall.
Fears grow over fate of Syrian city of Aleppo
International concern was mounting Friday over a potential massacre as Syrian troops bombarded the besieged city of Aleppo with artillery, strafed it ...