Massacres
Health workers in Ethiopia's Tigray region say an airstrike has hit a busy village market.
'Like a hell': Ethiopia airstrike survivors recall massacre

Jun. 27, 2021 02:16 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks as he commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, at the Greenwood Cultural Center, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden decries 'horrific' Tulsa massacre in emotional speech

By Jonathan Lemire And Darlene Superville Jun. 01, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

Amhara militia member Nega Wagaw poses for a photograph on a street in Gondar, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia Sunday, May 2, 2021. Ethiopia faces a growing crisis of ethnic nationalism that some fear could tear Africa's second most populous country apart, six months after the government launched a military operation in the Tigray region to capture its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Ethiopia 'at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict

By Rodney Muhumuza May. 04, 2021 04:04 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's leader said in an address before lawmakers Tuesday, March 23, 2021 that atrocities have occurred in Tigray, the country's northern region where fighting persists as government troops hunt down its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)
Ethiopia's leader says atrocities reported in Tigray war

By Rodney Muhumuza Mar. 23, 2021 07:35 AM EDT

Pope Francis meets authorities and civil society at Baghdad's Presidential Palace, Iraq, Friday, March 5, 2021. Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq to urge the country's dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The Latest: Pope honors massacre victims at Baghdad church

Mar. 05, 2021 06:07 AM EST

A Tigray refugee mother carries her child as she waits her turn for treatment at a clinic run by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in Village 8, the transit centre near the Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
UN: Ethiopia's conflict has 'appalling' impact on civilians

By Cara Anna Dec. 09, 2020 04:08 AM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 file photo, Rabbis Jeffrey Myers, left, of Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation and Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation wait on stage before speaking to standing-room only crowd gathered for the one-year commemoration of the Tree of Life synagogue attack, at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Pittsburgh. Since March 2020, Tree of Life has halted all in-person worship and group activities. However, Rabbi Myers has made appearances on Zoom and Facebook, livestreamed from his living room. “During the pandemic, people are seeking community,” he said. “We try in any way to help them find solace and hope and inspiration.” (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
Attack, then pandemic: Pittsburgh Jewish congregations cope

By David Crary Oct. 24, 2020 09:02 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. Mladic is appealing Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 against his convictions for crimes including genocide committed throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Mladic was convicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding crimes by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, an overwhelming majority of them Bosnian Muslim civilians. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)
Mladic lawyers call on UN judges to overturn his convictions

By Mike Corder Aug. 25, 2020 06:00 AM EDT

A woman prays at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Friday, July 10, 2020. Nine newly found and identified men and boys will be laid to rest when Bosnians commemorate on Saturday 25 years since more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter, after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces during the closing months of the country's 1992-95 fratricidal war, in Europe's worst post-WWII massacre. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
25 years on: A look at Europe's only post-WWII genocide

By Radul Radovanovic Jul. 10, 2020 09:19 AM EDT

Gravestones are lined up at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. A quarter of a century after they were killed in Sreberenica, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday, July 11. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces in the closing months of the country’s 1992-95 fratricidal war. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
25 years on, Srebrenica dead still being identified, buried

By Sabina Niksic And Eldar Emric Jul. 09, 2020 03:41 AM EDT

Rosa Alba Santoyo speaks on the phone and is embraced by a woman giving her condolences the day after she lost three of her adult children in an attack on the drug rehabilitation center where they were being treated, at her home in Irapuato, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Gunmen burst into the drug rehabilitation center and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. After the loss of her three children, only two of Santoyo's seven children remain living. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack

By Eduardo Verdugo Jul. 02, 2020 04:12 PM EDT

Police pass near the drug rehabilitation center that was attacked the previous day in Irapuato, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Gunmen burst into the center and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Death toll rises to 26 in Mexican drug rehab center attack

By Eduardo Verdugo Jul. 02, 2020 03:48 PM EDT

Burned bricks on a modern storefront are one of the few surviving reminders of the more than 30-block historic black district in Tulsa, Okla., Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Near Trump's rally site, black Tulsa lives with fiery legacy

By Ellen Knickmeyer Jun. 16, 2020 11:56 PM EDT

Katrina Cotton, center, of Houston, poses for a photo with her daughter, Kennedy Cotton, age seven, as her aunt, Janet Wilson, left, takes the photo, at the Black Wall Street memorial in Tulsa, Okla., Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Near Trump's rally site, black Tulsa lives with fiery legacy

By Ellen Knickmeyer Jun. 16, 2020 02:25 PM EDT

Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid, Spain, Monday June 8 2020. Spain's National Court on Monday started the trial of two former Salvadoran military men for their alleged involvement in the massacre of five Spanish priests in El Salvador more than three decades ago. Orlando Montano, a former colonel who served as El Salvador's vice minister for public security during the country's 1979-1992 civil war, faces up to 150 years of imprisonment for the slays in 1989. (Kiko Huesca, EFE/Pool Photo via AP)
Spain begins trial for killings of 5 Jesuits in El Salvador

By Aritz Parra Jun. 08, 2020 12:23 PM EDT

UN says eastern Congo fighting has killed 1,300 civilians

By Carley Petesch Jun. 05, 2020 07:32 AM EDT
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Various conflicts involving armed groups and government forces in Congo have killed more than 1,300 civilians in the past eight months...