The brutality of Vladimir Putin’s forces is starkly displayed in sickening new footage capturing the cold-blooded execution of three Ukrainian paratroopers. The harrowing scene unfolds on the frontline in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, where the soldiers, kneeling with their hands behind their heads, are mercilessly gunned down. Despite efforts to verify the authenticity of the video,... 

Several are said to have been killed in an attack on a historic church in Gaza. A war crime by Israel, according to the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. It is a building belonging to the Church of Saint Porphyrios – where hundreds of people have taken refuge – that was bombed, the Wall Street Journal reports. Even the church building itself – one of the oldest in the world – is... 

The effort to retake the northern region of Kharkiv comes in tandem with a push against Russian forces in Kherson. The “backbone” of Russia’s operations in the northern Ukrainian Kharkiv region has been “broken”, a military expert has told Express.co.uk, as Kyiv reports the discovery of up to 440 bodies in a mass grave outside a newly-retaken city. The Ukrainian push to retake Russian-controlled... 

This is the disgusting moment a pro-Putin war veteran appears to wave the skull of a slain Ukrainian soldier as he threatened the country with oblivion. Campaigner Igor Mangushev, 36, held what he said was the skull of an Azov regiment fighter killed in Mariupol, south-eastern Ukraine as he addressed a crowd. The twisted ultranationalist said: ‘Why can’t there be any reconciliation? ‘Ukraine... 

Rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters capture a policeman who the FSA allege is a “Shabiha” or pro-regime militiaman, on July 31, 2012, as the rebels overran a police station in Aleppo A horrifying amateur video from Syria emerged online, showing an apparent mass execution of Assad supporters in Aleppo at the hands of rebels from the Free Syria Army. The footage shows several bloodied men stripped... 

Questions: ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has written to the National Transitional Council over Gaddafi’s death The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has said there are ‘serious suspicions’ that the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime. Luis Moreno Ocampo said he sent a letter to the head of the National Transitional Council asking what the... 

The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the more controversial aspects of World War Two. Dresden, the ancient and was attacked three times on Feb 13 and 14 — twice by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and once by the USAAF (United States Army Air Force) in an operation involving well over 1,000 bombers. Today is the 65th anniversary of that excessive attack, some say that it was revenge...