The US military will not pursue the death penalty against US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania , a...
Munqidh Al Faraun, the chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial requested Wednesday that presiding judge Abdullah al-Amiri remove himself from the case for reasons of bias, specifically, for allowing defense lawyers to make politically-charged statements...
The chief US prosecutor for the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told reporters Tuesday that his office has begun preparing charge sheets for the 14 high-profile terror suspects who have been transferred...
UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on Wednesday blasted the US for denying Guantanamo Bay detainees adequate access to the judicial system. In a speech delivered in Sydney, Australia, on "The...
The trial of Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants on genocide and crimes against humanity charges related to the so-called "Anfal" operation , which led to the killings of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed three major changes to the rules regulating when companies' oil process facilities must integrate new pollution control equipment. Environmental advocates say the rule changes, put forward...
Chinese prosecutors have charged a police officer with negligent conduct in connection with the death of a suspect that occurred after a 21-hour interrogation, according to state media reports published Monday. The suspect, Tan Gangshan, was arrested on unknown...
Detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , recently transferred from US to Iraqi control , are allegedly being tortured by prison officials, according to an independent observer who told the UK's Telegraph that screaming was heard...
The Iraqi National Assembly on Sunday postponed debate on proposed federalism legislation that would allow Iraq's 18 provinces to form strong governments with their own security forces. Debate on the bill, supported by Kurdish and Shiite politicians...
US violent and property crime rates in 2005 reached the lowest levels since 1973, the first year such statistics were kept, according to estimations released Sunday by the US Justice Department . The report, Criminal Victimization, 2005 [text;...
