Mass grave

Fighters of the ruling Syrian body inspect the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Middle East

Syrian mass graves expose 'machinery of death' under Assad: top prosecutor

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are estimated to have been killed since 2011, when Assad's crackdown on protests against him spiralled into a full-scale war

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. Photo: UNB
Middle East

UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

Relatives react after viewing the exhumed remains of Esther Biriya Masha who was a follower of the Christian cult named Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, as the authorities begin to hand over bodies to family members, at the Star Specialist hospital funeral home in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya 26 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Africa

Kenyan families weep for starvation cult victims as first bodies released

The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass grave, after they were transported from Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for burial, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 22. File Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Israel accused of more war crimes after 30 bodies found in Gaza school

People, including Palestinian children, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, gather at Al Shifa hospital where they shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City November 7, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza hospital director says 179 buried in 'mass grave' in compound

File photo: UNB
Africa

UN says 87 bodies buried in Sudan mass grave

A cross is seen at a forest grave site during an exhumation, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 18, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
World+Biz

Governor says 146 bodies exhumed so far from mass burial site in Ukraine's Izium

Members of Ukrainian Emergency Service carry a body as they work at a place of mass burial during an exhumation, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
World+Biz

Ukraine searches for its dead at Russian occupation burial site

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum
World+Biz

Outrage as Ukraine finds mass grave near liberated Izyum

A Ukrainian serviceman walks among graves of mostly unidentified civilians and Ukrainian soldiers at an improvised cemetery in the town of Izium, recently recently liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a counteroffensive operation, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Oleksandr Khomenko
Europe

Hundreds found in mass burial site after Russians leave Ukraine city

File Photo: People walk through a nearly empty Times Square, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in New York City, US, March 19, 2020. Reuters/Lucas Jackson
Coronavirus chronicle

New York considering temporary mass graves for virus victims

Burundian workers from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission dig to extract bodies from a mass grave in the Bukirasazi hill in Karusi Province, Burundi January 27, 2020. Picture taken January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana
World+Biz

Over 6,000 bodies found in Burundi's mass graves