Previously undisclosed US military documents show ongoing Iraqi mistreatment of prisoners, including photos of bruised and beaten detainees, which US officials fear may damage the image of the new security forces in the eyes of the Iraqi public. The...

Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Thursday that he did not want an immediate probe conducted by UN human rights officials into recent violence in the eastern part of Uzbekistan. UN High Commissioner...

Iraq and Iran issued a landmark joint statement Thursday blaming Saddam Hussein and his loyalists as the military aggressors in both the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and the 1990 Iraq-Kuwait conflict . The statement came...

A North Caucasus District military court has found a group of a special forces soldiers in the Russian military not guilty in the 2002 murder of six Chechen civilians . The troops admitted to killing the civilians...

According to a court filing by his attorneys, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , a Virginia man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush and supporting al-Qaida , was tortured while in Saudi custody. Defense attorneys cited the...

Leaders of both parties brought race into the equation Thursday in the continuing Senate floor fight over President Bush's judicial nominees and the Senate's own filibuster rules. GOP Majority Leader Bill Frist held a news...

A federal judge issued a second 10-day restraining order Thursday blocking US congressional efforts to obtain documents that former investigator Robert Parton took with him when he resigned his role in the probe of the UN Oil-for-Food...

Nine individuals have been served search warrants as part of the federal investigation into the theft of over 300,000 personal records taken during a digital break-in of LexisNexis Inc. disclosed earlier this year. Personal computers...

Rwandan Defense Minister General Marcel Gatsinzi apologized Thursday before a Gacaca court for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . Minister Gatsinzi is the first high-ranking official to request a pardon for his role in...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has refused to sign a controversial bill that would have severely limited the rights of NGOs to act in Zimbabwe , according to newspaper reports. The Non-Governmental Organisations...