A Swedish court sentenced Syrian refugee Mouhannad Droub to five years in prison after convicting him of abusing a captured member of dictator Bashar Assad's forces.
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh sentenced Abdus Subhan to death—the ninth Jamaat-e-Islami leader convicted of war crimes since the tribunal opened in 2010.
Human Rights Watch said that militias allied with Iraqi forces are committing systematic abuses against Sunni civilians that are "possibly war crimes."
Sudanese army forces raped more than 200 women and girls in an organized attack on the north Darfur town of Tabit in October, Human Rights Watch charges.
Nepal created a long-delayed Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate war crimes during the nation's 10-year civil war with Maoist guerillas.
While Colombia's right fears incorporation of the FARC into a new rural police force, rebel leaders protest that the army continues offensives against them—despite peace talks.
It took 35 years, but Guatemala's former police chief has now been convicted of causing the deaths of 22 indigenous leaders and 15 others in a fire at the Spanish embassy.
Former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, himself once a child solider abducted at age 14, made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court.
The retrial of Guatemala's ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on genocide charges was delayed—on the basis of the judge having written a university thesis on genocide.
Uganda sid it will send Dominic Ongwen, a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, to trial at the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Up to 2,000 are feared dead in an ongoing massacre after Boko Haram seized Baga, a town on Nigeria's border with Chad in Borno state. The town was reportedly "razed to the ground."
The UN released its report finding that acts committed by armed factions in the Central African Republic constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity, but not genocide.
