The ICC is the permanent war crimes tribunal in the Dutch city of The Hague, established in 2002 to try war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Human rights violations by all sides, including extra-judicial killings, rapes, looting and displacing people by force, documented reports show.

Myanmar is facing charges of genocide at the UN's International Court of Justice over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya that forced more than 730,000 people to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

The trial has huge symbolic significance for Ukraine, which has accused Russia of atrocities and brutality against civilians during the invasion and said it has identified more than 10,000 possible war crimes.

Ukraine's prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova says that Kyiv was probing 5,600 alleged war crimes involving '500 suspects' from Russia's government and military.

Zelensky says that he had created a 'special mechanism' to investigate Russian 'war crimes' in Ukraine, vowing to find and punish 'everyone' responsible.

In December 2020, the office of the prosecutor announced it had reason to believe war crimes and other crimes were committed during the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The 'Butcher of Bosnia' ordered the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Israel says The Hague tribunal has no authority to open an investigation against it.

The probe will focus on a military operation launched by Israel 2014 with the stated aim of stopping rocket fire into the country by militants of Islamist movement Hamas, which saw about 2,250 Palestinians killed.

The image was referencing war crimes allegedly committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.