Agency condemns attack but struggles to justify costly mission in North Kivu that was powerless to stop wave of sexual violence. David Usborne | The Independent | 27 August 2010: The UN Security Council yesterday condemned the mass rape of almost 200 women by rebels in eastern Congo as the organisation's top officials struggled to account for the failure of peacekeepers to prevent the attacks. The... 

Iraq Body Count group claims attention paid to Iraqi casualties has been derisory. Jonathan Steele | The Guardian | 27 August 2010: The Chilcot inquiry has "fixated" on decision-making in Whitehall and Washington, obsessed over the ''war at home" and given "derisory" attention to the plight of the main victims, the Iraq Body Count (IBC) claims today. Releasing correspondence with Sir John Chilcot,... 

Charges against Army soldiers include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Raw Story | 25 August 2010: Seven more soldiers from a Washington state-based Stryker brigade have been changed in connection with a conspiracy to kill Afghan civilians. The Seattle Times reports that in addition to the five soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord charged with murder in June, charges have been filed... 

Editor's Note: "I was only following orders" was discounted as a legitimate excuse for committing War Crimes under precedents set at the Nuremburg Trials of the Nazis way back in 1946... Lawyer says Comrade Duch, jailed for 19 years for war crimes, should be acquitted because he was merely following orders. The Guardian | 25 August 2010: The former chief jailer of the Khmer Rouge has appealed... 

Move follows last week's disclosure of a series of civilian shootings on WikiLeaks. David Leigh & Ed Pilkington | The Observer | 1 August 2010: The prospect of a judicial review into previously covered-up civilian shootings in Afghanistan has opened up after human rights campaigners launched an attempt to take the Ministry of Defence to court. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian that... 

The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle. Patrick Cockburn | The Independent | 24 July 2010: Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according... 

Russia Today | 26 July 2010: A former Khmer Rouge prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity in Cambodia. The verdict was reached by a UN-backed war crimes tribunal. The defendant, better known as Comrade Duch, was sentenced to 35 years in prison although the court later reduced it to19 years, taking into account time he'd already spent in detention. He admitted to overseeing... 

Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans' rules of engagement. David Leigh | The Guardian | 25 July 2010: Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into his village in March 2007, the war logs record that he "ran at the sight of the approaching... 

Julian Assange of Wikileaks has released a portion of the Afghanistan War Logs to The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and The New York Times in preparation to the release of all of them on the Wikileaks web site in the near future. The documents detail such matters as: How French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight. How a US patrol similarly machine-gunned a bus, wounding... 

Coalition in confusion as deputy prime minister pronounces invasion 'illegal' at dispatch box. Nicholas Watt | The Guardian | 21 July 2010: Nick Clegg was tonight forced to clarify his position on the Iraq war after he stood up at the dispatch box of the House of Commons and pronounced the invasion illegal. The deputy prime minister insisted he was speaking in a personal capacity, as a leading... 

In March 2006, four US soldiers, strung out after months in the deadly battleground south of Baghdad, hatched a plan: to carry out one of the worst war crimes ever committed in Iraq. Jim Frederick | The Guardian | 24 July 2010: On 12 March 2006, Abu Muhammad heard a knock on his door. He lived in a village just outside Yusufiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, and warily he headed towards the window... 

Former prime minister could be asked to give evidence after documents implicate No 10 in 'rendition' policy. Ian Cobain - The Guardian - 15 July 2010: Tony Blair has repeatedly refused to say whether he will appear before the inquiry into the UK's role in torture and rendition, despite evidence in recently disclosed documents that implicates No 10. Four former Labour ministers – Jack Straw,... 

High court victory for 102 men claiming systemic abuse while in detention may lead to public inquiry. Ian Cobain - The Guardian - 16 July 2010: The high court today gave permission for a judicial review of the government's failure to hold a public inquiry into the British army's detention policies in Iraq amid allegations that large numbers of civilians were tortured. The court said it could be... 

JTA Wire Service - 25 June 2010: A complaint was filed in Belgian court against 14 Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak were among those charged with war crimes committed during the Gaza war in the winter of 2008-09, the French daily Le Monde reported. Former Gen. Matan...