The US military has preliminary plans to build a new legal compound at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , where trials of detainees may begin to take place as early as June, the Miami Herald reported...
German officials have expressed some concern about the future of the proposed European Constitution in light of positions taken by two leading rivals for the French presidency. Newly-chosen French Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal [BBC...
US Army Spc. James P. Barker, who pleaded guilty Wednesday for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March,...
John Altenburg , appointed in 2003 by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to oversee the military commissions trying terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay , has resigned...
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani announced on Al-Iraqiya state television Thursday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Harith al-Dhari , the most prominent leader of Iraq's Sunni minority, and head of the...
The president of Burundi admitted Thursday that instances of torture and brutality by police and members of the military do sometimes occur in the country, but told reporters in Paris that the perpetrators of those isolated...
The US Army announced Thursday that it will push forward with a court martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , an Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq and openly protested the war...
Arizona became the first US state to reject an amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman after voters Tuesday narrowly rejected Proposition 107 , which would have amended the Arizona Constitution ...
The US Army said Friday that commanders on the ground have prevented Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona , found guilty in June of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ,...
British-based bank Barclays PLC announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with Enron to settle litigation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York...