Press TV - US President Donald Trump has warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) of "swift and vigorous response" if the Hague-based tribunal investigates Americansand Israelis for war crimes. Trump issued the warning on Friday after ICC judges rejected a request by the court's prosecutor to probe atrocities committed by US forces in Afghanistan....

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message slammed the US complicity in war against Syria and Yemen. 'Complicity in Saudi & UAE war crimes with arms, intel & logistical support apparently not enough. The US also proliferating advanced weapons to extremists, incl Al Qaida & ISIS. First Syria; now in Yemen. Aim: Permanent ...

Press TV - Americas so-called war on terror that began 17 years ago has killed millions of people, far greater than official estimates, amounting to a holocaust and one of the worst war crimes in human history, a US scholar says. The ongoing US military campaign was aimed at creating endless wars to destroy Muslim countries, contrary to Washingtons ...

Press TV - Iran says the international community must be vigilant towards halting future mass killings and genocides. Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations GholamaliKhoshroo made the remarks on Monday while addressing the UN General Assemblys meeting on Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and ...

IFP Coverage- In a report covered by Irans Ettelaat newspaper, The Hague prosecutors said there was a reasonable basis to believe that US forces had tortured prisoners in Afghanistan and at Central Intelligence Agency detention facilities elsewhere in 2003 and 2004. Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior professor at the University of Minnesota highlighted the US role in the Saudi regimes war crimes in the Middle East and said since no one outside the region cares about what happens there, Saudis get away with their atrocities. The US has supported Saudi Arabia as an unquestioned ally since after World War II, and ...

ILNA: War and poverty have forced 50 million children around the world from their homes, according to UNICEF. Up to 28 million of the children have been uprooted by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, says a report released by the UN agency. The report, entitled Uprooted: The Growing Crisis for ...

A group of lawyers, lawmakers and civil rights activists are urging authorities in Germany to investigate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Kurdish activist group Civaka Azad said lawyers filed the complaint Monday with Germany's federal prosecutor's office that relates to crimes allegedly committed ...

The total number of people internally displaced by wars and conflicts around the world reached 40.8 million by the end of 2015, says an international aid group. According to a report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) on Wednesday, 8.6 million of them were uprooted from their homes within their own countries last ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the use of food as a weapon against the Syrian people is a war crime amid reports of severe malnourishment in some besieged towns. Some 400,000 people in Syria are under siege as a foreign-backed insurgency is wreaking havoc across much of the country. "Let me be clear: the use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war ...

The United States is untouchable when it comes to war crimes and other violations of the Geneva Conventionsbecause there is no global body that can enforce punishment against the country. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday when asked whether US officials ...