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War crimes

May 2026

  • An RAF Typhoon aircraft.

    MoD has no system to detect civilian deaths caused by military, study shows

    Revelation comes after report commissioned by department released in response to charity’s FoI request

April 2026

  • A large crowd of people on a street.

    Syrian commission prepares war crimes case against notorious Assad official

  • a man speaks into a microphone

    Democrats outraged at Trump’s Iran post: ‘A threat to commit a war crime’

  • emergency workers walk among the rubble of a destroyed synagogue

    Retired military officers call Trump’s threats against Iran ‘likely war crimes’

  • Hegseth speaking at the White House with President Trump in background

    Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

  • Notes and queries
    Readers reply: Has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?

  • Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?

  • Artist files war crime case in Paris over Israeli strike that killed parents in Lebanon

March 2026

  • A displaced boy stands outside his family's tent at a temporary displacement camp in the Beirut Stadium on March 28, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon.

    Brief letters
    We can’t look away from the horrors of war

  • Satellite views on El-Fasher after RSF fighters seized the cityepa12499545 A handout satellite image made available by Vantor shows fires and smoke around El Fasher Airport, Sudan, 26 October 2025 (issued 02 November 2025). Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters took over El Fasher and the surrounding villages in the Darfur region on 26 October 2025. EPA/SATELLITE IMAGE ©2025 VANTOR / HANDOUT -- MANDATORY CREDIT: Satellite image ©2025 Vantor -- THE WATERMARK MAY NOT BE REMOVED/CROPPED --HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher

  • Crowd of people look at damaged apartment buildings in Ramat Gan after an Iranian missile strike on 22 March.

    Breaching the Iron Dome: the Iranian cluster bombs bypassing Israeli air defences

  • A displaced child inside a tent in Beirut, Lebanon.

    We can’t stand by while children are killed in war

  • double quotation markChildren killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this

    Gordon Brown

  • ‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan

February 2026

  • Ukrainian soldier Kyrylo Chuvak in the Guardian documentary, No Time To Heal, by Ksenia Savoskina

    The Guardian documentary
    No Time To Heal: the psychological rehabilitation of a Ukrainian soldier after Russian captivity

    Ukrainian soldiers suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety are sent to the Forest Glade – Ukraine’s first centre for the treatment of psychological trauma – before returning to the frontline. After three years in Russian captivity following the battle for Mariupol, 25-year-old Kyrylo Chuvak spends three weeks at the centre, a brief opportunity for rehabilitation before returning to war
  • Ukrainian soldiers suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety are sent to the Forest Glade – Ukraine’s first centre for the treatment of psychological trauma – before returning to the frontline.  After three years in Russian captivity following the battle for Mariupol, 25-year-old Kyrylo Chuvak spends three weeks at the centre, a brief opportunity for rehabilitation before returning to war

    The Guardian documentary
    No Time to Heal: the psychological rehabilitation of a Ukrainian soldier after Russian captivity

    Ukrainian soldiers suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety are sent to the Forest Glade – Ukraine’s first centre for the treatment of psychological trauma – before returning to the frontline.  After three years in Russian captivity following the battle for Mariupol, 25-year-old Kyrylo Chuvak spends three weeks at the centre, a brief opportunity for rehabilitation before returning to war
    Video14:48

    • double quotation markIn 2022, the world had moral clarity over Russia’s invasion. Now in Ukraine we ask: where has that gone?

      Sasha Dovzhyk

    • Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers

    • International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds

January 2026

  • Owen Jones

    double quotation markDonald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’?

    Owen Jones
    Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it’s about so much more than Gaza, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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