The first convictions took place after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War Two - but what are modern examples of war crimes?

As the global community grapples with the best ways to confront and punish these crimes, the International Criminal Court ...

The respectable jurisprudential debate over the definition of the crime and the fulfilment of its constituent parts soon stifles the outcry ...

The most prominent European to face an international war crimes court since Nazi leaders went on trial in Nuremberg after World War Two, Milosevic denounces the U.N. International Criminal ...

Crimes against humanity were first set out in the charters of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, which began after the Second World War in 1945. They were then included in the statutes of the ...

(photo credit: Maxim Shemetov/Illustration/Reuters) The United States may leave the international effort in prosecuting Russia for war ... in a Nuremberg-style tribunal for war crimes.