Mass Grave

Live blog: Russian President orders more security for blasted Crimea bridge

The fire occurred hours after explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions, as fighting rolls into its 227th day.

Ukraine finds mass grave of 'more than 440 bodies' in Izyum city

Kiev reports finding mass burial site near northeastern city previously occupied by Russian forces, likening the area to Bucha and Mariupol cities which have become symbols of atrocities during Russian assault on Ukraine.

Mass grave of PKK/YPG victims found in Syria: Turkish defence ministry

The discovery adds to the accusations that the terrorist group has committed war crimes.

Dozens more to be buried in mass grave as Myanmar jade mine toll rises

More than 170 people, many of them migrants seeking their fortune in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state, died on Thursday after mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a surge of mud and water.

New mass grave unearthed in Iraq's north from brutal Daesh rule

The new mass grave has been discovered in the village of Humeydat near the Badoush area west of the city of Mosul.

Mass grave found in south of Tripoli - Libyan interior ministry

A mass grave was found in the Aziziye region in the south of the capital city in Libya, say officials. The investigation is under way.

Remains of at least 25 people found in mass grave in Mexico

The remains of 25 unidentified dead people, as well as five bags that are presumed to also contain human remains, have been found extracted in a mass grave in western Mexico.

Rwanda finds genocide grave that could contain 30,000 bodies

Efforts to exhume bodies are challenged by the African nation's coronavirus-related lockdown, as it marks 26th anniversary of genocide that killed around 800,000.

Syria's Raqqa still finding the dead, two years after Daesh fall

Even as Raqqa's people gradually rebuild, the graves found in houses, parks, destroyed buildings are a grim reminder of the Daesh horrors two years after the group was chased out of the Syrian city.

At least 200 corpses found in mass grave in Syria's Raqqa

The bodies included five middle-aged men in orange jumpsuits, the kind typically worn by Daesh hostages, as well as three women who were apparently stoned to death, the Britain-based SOHR said.

Twelve bodies of Muslims found in Bosnian war-era mass grave

More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were butchered by Bosnian Serb forces in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II and deemed genocide by international justice.

Security forces took part in killing 10 Rohingya, Myanmar army says

Myanmar army chief's office admits for the first time the existence of a mass grave of the Muslim minority in Rakhine state, saying the security forces took part in the massacre of 10 Rohingya.