THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A United Nations war crimes tribunal ordered an independent review of its "internal operations" Friday following the dramatic death of a former Croatian general who swallowed ...

Slobodan Praljak, a former Bosnian Croat general, drank poison from a bottle during a war-crimes tribunal on Wednesday. He died a few hours later in a Dutch hospital. Praljak's charges centered on the ...

Slobodan Praljak, a former commander of Bosnian Croat forces in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, drank from a small bottle or glass and yelled "I am not a war criminal" moments after judges at the International ...

A convicted war criminal succeeded in attracting the eyes of the world with a courtroom suicide, though investigators must now piece together how the defendant confined at the “Hague Hilton” prison ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands --The final hearing at a United Nations war crimes tribunal was dramatically halted Wednesday when a former Bosnian Croat military chief claimed to have taken poison. Hours ...

(THE HAGUE, Netherlands) — A deadly chemical was in the container from which a Croat war criminal drank shortly before dying, a Dutch prosecutor said Thursday, as an independent investigation into the ...

Slobodan Praljak died Wednesday, just hours after the convicted war criminal interrupted a courtroom hearing to declare his innocence — and then drank a small container of what he said was poison, ...

The probe into how a former Bosnian Croat military chief was able to smuggle poison into a United Nations courtroom and take his own life has left investigators stumped, prosecutors said Friday.

The convicted Bosnian Croat war criminal who died Wednesday after drinking a vial of poison as a judge upheld his 20-year sentence died of heart failure, according to the Dutch Prosecution Service.

Convicted Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak has reportedly died from drinking poison after hearing that his sentence had been upheld at the Hague on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. ...