Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Hans Blix, Chairman, June 1, 2006 [independent commission study calling for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons and...

The Prosecutor v. Charles Taylor, Appeals Chamber, Special Court for Sierra Leone, May 29, 2006 [dismissing a defense challenge to a prosecutor's motion to move the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the International...

The Conservative Party government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced new legislation in the federal House of Commons Tuesday that would set fixed dates for regular federal elections and would potentially...

Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, signed by President George W. Bush, May 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

The British prisoners rights group Reprieve has claimed that over 60 of the foreign detainees imprisoned by the US at Guantanamo Bay were juveniles under 18 years of age when captured, and that some...

Over 1000 UK service personnel have deserted since the beginning of the war in Iraq, the BBC reported Sunday. A total of 134 deserted in 2003, 229 in 2004, 377 in 2005, and 189 so far in 2006, up...

Iran has delivered a "bill of indictment" against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, which will submit it to Iraq's High Criminal Court, according to a joint statement issued Saturday by the governments of...

US Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a former US Marine now senior Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said Sunday on ABC's This Week that Marine killings of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha ...

The US Department of Justice late Friday filed for dismissal of two lawsuits brought over the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program , saying that defending them would...

European foreign ministers meeting in Austria Saturday held out little hope of substantial progress on ratifying the European Constitution next year during Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council, notwithstanding German pledges to...