As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

United Nations judges and lawyers have met to discuss the fate of a man accused of bankrolling genocide in Rwanda.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was highly critical of a new U.N. report accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, warning that those involved could face sanctions.

The report issued Tuesday by experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible.

Does a viral video show two military pilots arrested for refusing to fly armed planes to Israel? No, that's not true: A video with a false caption has gone viral more than two weeks after it was filmed.

Barenboim’s powerful and moving indictment of the German government was greeted with huge applause by the large audience which had gathered at Berlin’s central Gendarmenmarkt.

Sadly, the Armenians share something else with their Jewish brethren: the collective trauma of a genocide. The Armenian Genocide took place 110 years ago and is still often dismissed as a consequence of the First World War.

The band and Williams, as a solo artist, were added to the campaign's official website without a formal announcement.

The Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said atrocities committed in the country over the past three decades met the threshold of genocide under international law and should be investigated.