Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim , head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , said Monday that he would like the amnesty provision of the proposed national reconciliation plan [text and press...
A Chinese Cabinet official said Monday that a draft law imposing fines on media organizations for covering sudden emergencies without approval from the local government would also apply to international news organizations. It is not clear, however,...
Federal prosecutors in Charlotte charged former US Army soldier Steven Green with murder and rape Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three family members in Mahmudiya in March. US Army Maj. Gen. James Thurman,...
Rear Admiral Harry Harris , commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , said in remarks published Sunday that as many as 75 percent of Guantanamo inmates no longer provide the US with useful...
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that some two dozen members of the Palestinian cabinet and legislature from the governing Hamas faction detained by Israeli forces in West Bank raids last week will...
Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed...
The UK parliament's Home Affairs Committee has warned that the 28-day limit for police to detain terror suspects without charge, mandated under the Terrorism Act 2006 , may need to be extended. In...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several Republican US senators expressed optimism over the weekend that the administration and Congress will be able to strike an agreement on legislation to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay...
The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday convicted Naser Oric , a former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica, for failing to prevent the murder and...
The Iraqi High Tribunal said on Friday that while coalition forces still provide physical protection for former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz , he has been safe and in no danger in the legal custody...
