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Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, center, and Erin Barclay attend a briefing on the 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, March 20, 2023.
Conflict & Justice
The US is helping the ICC investigate war crimes in Sudan, diplomat says
A man is shown wearing a red sweatshirt and holding up a piece of white paper to block his face.
Justice
Conviction in landmark case over Syrian government torture
A group of four soldiers are shown walking across a field wearing full battlefield fatigues and carrying weapons.
Military
Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed Afghans — report
A general view of the Grand al-Nuri mosque during its reconstruction, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 23, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Documenting ISIS’ crimes is daunting. Coronavirus makes it even harder.
A woman stands at a memorial.
Justice
25 years after Srebrenica massacre, int’l crimes are still difficult to prosecute
National Security Adviser John Bolton is shown at a microphone with the US flag behind him, speaking at a forum in Washington, DC, 2018.
International court says it is undeterred after Bolton threatens US sanctions
Three people walk past a stone house bombed out by an air strike in the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen, August 8, 2018.
Conflict
The UN says some Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein discusses the Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's anti-terrorism tactics on December 9, 2014.
Conflict
Here are four key findings from the gruesome Senate report on torture
Conflict & Justice
Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Secret Vacuum Cleaner Design
Do The Positions of Obama’s FBI Nominee Deserve More Scrutiny?
Obama’s C.I.A Nominee John O. Brennan Has “Personal Objections” to Torture
Zero Dark Thirty and the Depiction of Torture
Arts, Culture & Media
Testimony of Franco-era Victims Heard for the First Time in Spain
Conflict & Justice
Crusading Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón on Trial
Abuse Victims Accuse Pope of Crimes Against Humanity
Conflict & Justice
War Crimes Investigator
Did Torture Help or Hinder Efforts to Find Bin Laden?
Global Politics
Former CIA Director on Prison Abuse, Oil’s ‘Monopoly’
Global Politics
The Torture Debate Ensnares the President
Global Politics
Pelosi, Panetta and Feinstein: The California Connection
Torture On Trial
Global Politics
President Obama, Operative in Chief, visits the CIA
Global Politics
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s last hearings at Gitmo
Global Politics
Rape as a weapon of war
Conflict & Justice
Congress probes interrogation methods
Global Politics
White House on interrogations
Justice department weighs torture methods
Conflict & Justice
Drawing the line on torture and interrogation