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In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, enters the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Judges at the International Criminal Court are passing judgement Thursday Feb. 4, 2021, on Ongwen, who is charged with 70 crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

ICC convicts Ugandan rebel commander of war crimes

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. In his opening statement on Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018, a lawyer defending Ongwen accused of crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers is casting him as a victim of the rebel group's brutal leader, Joseph Kony. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Defense lawyer casts Ugandan war crimes defendant as victim

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

US ends hunt for Joseph Kony as top rebels ‘off battlefield’

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Uganda's military says it has started pulling its forces from Central African Republic, where troops had been pursuing one of Africa's most notorious fugitives, Joseph Kony. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File,)

Mission to pursue African warlord Kony is declared over

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. A rebel in charge of communications for warlord Joseph Kony has surrendered to Ugandan forces, the military said Thursday, March 30, 2017 shortly after the U.S. indicated it was pulling out of the international manhunt for one of Africa's most notorious fugitives. (Stuart Price, Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. ends hunt for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, is flanked by two security guards as he sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Ugandan rebel charged with 70 counts, including murder, rape

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 12, 2006, file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)

Joseph Kony, fugitive African warlord, is said to be sickly

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. (Image: Youtube, C-SPAN)

Marie Harf: U.S., allies must also focus on Joseph Kony’s ‘Christian militant’ group

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday, April 29, 2012 file photo, U.S. Army special forces Master Sergeant Eric, centre, who would only give his first name in accordance with special forces security guidelines, speaks with troops from the Central African Republic and Uganda, in Obo, Central African Republic, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Uganda's government said Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, that it wants to try Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, who recently surrendered to U.S. Forces and is in U.S. custody in Central African Republic, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, instead of at the International Criminal Court. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Uganda says it wants to try rebel leader who surrendered

By RISDEL KASASIRA - Associated Press

The U.N. is seeking to bring to justice Joseph Kony in the rapes and deaths of thousands, many of them civilians.

Joseph Kony, Lord’s Resistance Army warlord, eludes capture in Uganda

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to the The Washington Times

The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwamba in southern Sudan. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, Pool, File)

Invisible Children, group behind Joseph Kony video, will slim operations

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

LRA’s Kony hunted in Central African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwamba in southern Sudan. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, Pool, File)

U.S. sends more troops, aircraft to search for Kony

By Lolita C. Baldor and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Warlord Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, reportedly "wants to lay down his arms," a spokesman for the Central African Republic government said. (Associated Press)

Central African Republic negotiating for surrender of warlord Kony

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

loot: A Kenya Wildlife Service warden guards elephant ivory that has been impounded. The tusks are a sign of an increase in poaching in Africa that is threatening the elephant population on the continent and bringing easy money to terrorists. (Associated press)

Terrorists slaughter African elephants, use ivory to finance operations

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Adventurer Robert Young Pelton, whose crowd-funding scheme has already drawn criticism from a pair of Africa experts, is the latest to join a line of private individuals and aid groups who are trying to corner Joseph Kony and the members of his Lord's Resistance Army. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)

Canadian will try to find African warlord using crowd-funded former soldiers

Associated Press

**FILE** Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, meets July 31, 2006, with a delegation of 160 officials and lawmakers from northern Uganda and representatives of non-governmental organizations in Congo near the Sudan border. (Associated Press)

U.S. pauses Kony search in Central African Republic

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Joseph Kony heads the Lord's Resistance Army, a group which originated in northern Uganda and is notorious for massacring civilians and using child soldiers. (Associated Press)

U.S., Uganda forces put hunt for Kony on hold

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

This photo taken Friday, April 27, 2012, shows an aerial view over northern Uganda. Some locals in Gulu in northern Uganda have other concerns that complicate the military mission of forces now hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, such as the fear of reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, or concerns that troops hunting him will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Fugitive African warlord Kony stays a step ahead of pursuers

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

**FILE** Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building in Obo, Central African Republic, used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). (Associated Press)

Group: U.S. troops should actively hunt for Kony

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press