War crimes

Syria Investigating War Crimes
Ussama Uthman poses during an interview with the Associated Press on Sept. 19, 2025, in northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Human rights

AP lands exceptional interview with long-underground Syrian whistleblower

NOV. 21, 2025

Wagner Videos War Crimes
In this image from video posted on a Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram channel in July 2024, men in Burkina Faso military uniforms stand around a dead body lying on the ground as it was cut into pieces. (AP Photo)

Wagner Group

A confidential legal brief to the ICC accuses Wagner of promoting atrocities on social media

JUNE 27, 2025

APTOPIX Russia Ukraine War
Smoke rises from an explosion following a Russian drone strike on Sumy, Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia

AP discovered an apparent new war crime in Ukraine and exposed Russian manipulation

APRIL 18, 2025

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FILE - A girl holds a photo of a Ukrainian POW killed in the 2022 explosions at the Russian-controlled prison barracks in Olenivka, eastern Ukraine, during a memorial in Kyiv on July 29, 2023. An AP investigation interviewed survivors, family and investigators and obtained an internal U.N. analysis. All pointed to Russia as the culprit. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Law enforcement

2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit

JULY 25, 2024

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In this image from March 4, 2022, surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government, Russian troops lead nine men at gunpoint to their headquarters at 144 Yablunska St. in Bucha, Ukraine, in a March 4, 2022 image from surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government. The men would be tortured and executed as part of what the Russians called “zachistka” – cleansing. The Russian occupiers hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify and neutralize potential threats. (Ukrainian government via AP)

Atrocities

‘Method to the violence’: Dogged investigation and groundbreaking visuals document Bucha ‘cleansing’

NOV. 11, 2022

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Andriy Kotsar, who was captured and tortured three times by Russian soldiers, sits at a table after a service at Pishchanskyi church in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 21, 2022. An AP investigation found that Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine, extending to both civilians and soldiers throughout the city. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

Izium

AP’s on-the-ground investigation in Ukraine uncovers Russia’s torture sites — and survivors

OCT. 7, 2022

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At left, residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, March 9, 2022.. The theater was in use as the city’s main bomb shelter when a Russian airstrike destroyed much of the building on March 16. Survivors say at least 100 people were at the field kitchen at the time of the attack; none of them survived. At right, on March 17, one day after the attack, rubble covers the area where the field kitchen stood. Survivors say about 1,000 people were in the building at the time of the airstrike. AP’s reconstruction of the incident shows about 600 people died in the attack.on March 17, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (Lev Sandalov via AP) AP Photo / Alexei Alexandrov

Fatalities

Unique AP visual investigation points to 600 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater

MAY 13, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Atrocities

Perseverance lands AP interview with Ukrainian president; team in Bucha documents evidence of war crimes

APRIL 15, 2022

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A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Atrocities

Ukraine visuals document an exceptionally dark chapter of the war; intelligence says aides misled Putin

APRIL 8, 2022

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Africa

Determined source work exposes horrific massacre in holy city of Ethiopia’s isolated Tigray region

FEB. 26, 2021

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Attorney client privilege

APNewsBreak: Military prosecutors sent tracking software to defense team, reporter

MAY 24, 2019

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