The UN Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement Thursday saying it was "deeply shocked and distressed" at an Israeli attack on a UNIFIL military observer post in Lebanon Tuesday that killed four observers [UNIFIL press release,...

A new US federal regulation announced by the Department of Homeland Security Thursday and published in the Federal Register would for the first time require biometric fingerprinting and photographing of lawful permanent US residents - so called "green...

Report, Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, American Bar Association, July 24, 2006 [finding that President Bush's practice of attaching signing statements to new laws undermines the rule of law and the constitutional system...

"No Blood, No Foul:" Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Human Rights Watch, July 23, 2006 [finding on the basis of interviews with US soldiers that US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices and...

Touring south Beirut Sunday, United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the damage to civilian areas caused by Israeli airstrikes was worse than he had anticipated and reemphasized that attacking civilians...

US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices even in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal , and military lawyers brought in to brief interrogators erroneously told them that the Geneva Conventions...

Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying...

The Russian Supreme Court Friday ordered the release of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov pending trial for allegedly diverting funds equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars to his personal use and...

Charges have been dropped against a Pennsylvania National Guardsman accused in the February 15 shooting death of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi , a city west of Baghdad. Prosecutors recommended...

Israel found itself on the defensive with the United States as its most vocal ally in a Friday UN Security Council open meeting in which ambassadors from the Arab world and beyond condemned it for breaching international...