Defense lawyers for German citizen Ladislav Niznansky , the 88-year-old former Slovak Nazi commander accused of wartime massacres, demanded Tuesday that their client be acquitted and given compensation for his time in prison, saying there was no evidence...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials Tuesday on behalf of Khaled el-Masri , a German man who claims he...
The trial of Vladimir Arutunyan , the Georgian man who attempted to assassinate US President George W. Bush with a grenade when Bush was visiting the former Soviet state earlier this year, began Monday. Arutunyan is accused of...
Following a brief recess prompted by a defense team walkout and an emotional outburst from Saddam Hussein, the trial of the former Iraqi dictator and seven co-defendants resumed Monday afternoon with the testimony of Ahmed Hassan Mohammed...
Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called for evidence implicating Syrians in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to be scrutinized in the wake of an admission by Syrian witness, Hosam Taher...
France's National Assembly on Tuesday voted 373-27 in favor of a new anti-terrorism bill that will increase the use of video surveillance and allow police more time to question terror suspects. The...
Afghanistan's government said Monday that it believed the US military's punishment for four American soldiers who burned the bodies of two Taliban rebels was "very lenient." The US military said Saturday that the soldiers, who...
Hosam Taher Hosam, a Syrian witness who told the UN committee investigating the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri that Syrian and Lebanese officials had a hand in the February 14 assassination...
Following the latest delay in the Slobodan Milosevic war crimes trial, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ) said Tuesday that it has ordered a hearing on November 29 to...
Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has again denied that he controls death squads targeting Iraq's Sunni minority and ordered the torture of detainees in a secret prison . In a New York Times...