Saudi Arabia officials on Sunday arrested dozens of individuals, including princes, military officers, influential businessmen and government ministers, as part of a wide ranging anti-corruption probe. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been the driving force...
US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl avoided prison time but received a dishonorable discharge Friday for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009. Bergdahl was originally facing a potential life in prison sentence, though...
Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs , Yousuf Bin Alawi, on Monday signed Ministerial Decision No. 330/2017 into law, establishing the Omani Committee for International Humanitarian Law. The committee was established [Times of...
UPDATE 2:32PM ET: Manafort and Gates have pleaded not guilty. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday revealed charges against two former Trump campaign officials, and a plea agreement with a third, marking the first criminal charges to...
The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) on Monday denounced the arrest of 30 opposition party members as part of a crackdown by President Joseph Kabila's government. The...
Iraq's Supreme Justice Council on Thursday ordered the arrest of Kurdistan Regional Government Vice President Kosrat Rasul on charges of "provocation" against Iraq's armed forces. The court order comes after Rasul has spoken out against the increased military...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a 90-year-old cross shaped monument in Maryland violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment . The monument, erected in 1925 to honor...
At a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, on Monday, Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to begin the process of reducing tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh, which both nations lay...
A group of UN human rights experts on Monday urged Kenya to lift a new ban on protests and refrain from violence against protesters in the build up to the national elections. The Kenyan authorities made it illegal...
José Miguel Vivanco , director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, sent a letter to several heads of the Colombian government Sunday, urging them to implement legislative proposals of a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
