A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Dutch businessman to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's government. Frans van Anraat ,...

AP is reporting that new US Department of Justice documents released Friday by the National Archives include a 1985 statement by US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito that the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling should...

Uganda announced Thursday it would commence reparation negotiations with the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2006, following Monday's International Court of Justice ruling that Uganda violated Congo's sovereignty...

Former US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle denied in an editorial in the Washington Post Friday that the post-9/11 congressional Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) provided any basis for warrantless National Security Agency wiretapping...

The office of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) tasked with investigating the oil-for-food program will remain open an additional three months, until March 31, so prosecutors can assist "duly authorized law...

A coalition of Sunni and secular Shiite political groups said Thursday that they would boycott sessions of the new Iraqi national assembly elected on December 15 unless an independent review of the poll was conducted...

A US District Court judge Thursday dismissed a civil suit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to conceal clergy sex abuse , citing the pontiff's immunity as head of the Vatican state . Judge...

Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants previously denied in court that they had been beaten by American guards, Iraqi investigative judge Raed Juhi said Thursday. Hussein alleged earlier this week in trial proceedings that he had...

Amendment to An Act to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to July 1, 2006, passed...

Abu Bakker Qassim et al. v. George W. Bush et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge James Robertson, December 22, 2005 [ruling that two Chinese Uighur detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay can...