A U.S. diplomat said two top war crimes suspects — Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic — could be apprehended with a single phone call from Serbia's prime minister.
A departing U.N. prosecutor appealed Thursday for the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to keep its doors open until its chief fugitives are arrested and put on trial.
A Bosnian Serb general who ordered the relentless shelling, sniping and indiscriminate terror that rained down on Sarajevo during the final phase of a 44-month siege, was convicted of war crimes Wednesday and given a 33-year prison sentence.
The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months after its chaotic adjournment.
UNITED NATIONS — The outgoing Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor called Monday for the European Union to deny membership to Serbia unless the country hands over two of the most wanted war crimes suspects from the Balkan wars.
The outgoing Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor said she has given Belgrade a new deadline: Hand over fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic by Monday or she will throw a major obstacle in the way of Serbia's bid to join the European Union.
A U.N. war crimes prosecutor insisted Monday on the arrest of four long-sought fugitives whose success at eluding capture has become the biggest single obstacle to Serbia building closer ties with the European Union.
Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday rejected a Bosnian Serb's appeal of his 15-year sentence for repeatedly raping two Muslim women during the Bosnian war.
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have appealed the sentences for two Serbs convicted in the 1991 massacre of more than 190 Croats, calling them "manifestly inadequate."
Lawyers and human right groups are backing an American lawyer to be chief prosecutor at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, fearing that naming a newcomer could disrupt the court's final years.
A Congolese militia leader suspected of mass murder, rape and sexual enslavement appeared Monday at the International Criminal Court for the first time and claimed he had been illegally detained in Congo since 2005.
A former Congolese militia leader and army general accused of masterminding the massacre of 200 villagers was taken into custody Thursday at the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A former Serbian police general wanted for more than three years was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday on charges of murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said.
Survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II filed a lawsuit Monday against the United Nations and the Dutch government, saying they failed to protect civilians in Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995 and slaughtered 8,000 men.
A former Bosnian Serb general who is considered the third most wanted war crimes fugitive in the Balkans was arrested on the Bosnia-Serbia border Thursday, police said.
Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday — International Women's Day.
Thousands of former fighters, including top government figures, rallied Friday to support a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes.
NATO troops in Bosnia raided early Tuesday morning the homes of the daughter and the son of Radovan Karadzic, the U.N. tribunal's most wanted war crimes suspect at large.
An Israeli think tank with strong links to the military released videos and testimony Tuesday it said proved Hezbollah guerrillas used civilians as human shields during last summer's war in Lebanon.
Chief war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte suggested Friday the European Union take over financing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal if the United Nations cuts off funds before the court can bring its most-wanted fugitives to trial.
Three weeks after a cease-fire ended Israel's monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel is increasingly concerned that government officials and army officers traveling abroad could face war crimes charges, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
Serbian officials on Tuesday criticized U.N. prison authorities in the Netherlands for failing to prevent the suicide of a Croatian Serb convicted of ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars.
Eight former Croatian soldiers were convicted Thursday of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a trial later annulled as being flawed.
Spanish police arrested a suspected Serb hit man wanted in the murder of a Kosovo Albanian who was believed to have had evidence implicating former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in dozens of murders, authorities said Monday.