Exiled former President of Liberia Charles Taylor will remain a threat to the entire West African region until he is tried and has said he will continue his efforts to assassinate Guinean President Lansana Conte according...
New Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and 27 Cabinet members were sworn in Tuesday as Iraq's first post-Saddam elected government. That government remains incomplete, however, with five ministries under temporary leadership and two deputy prime...
Thousands of Omanis on Tuesday gathered at a mosque in Oman's capital city of Muscat to protest Monday's state security court conviction of 31 people for plotting to overthrow Sultan Qaboos [Oman Ministry of Information...
The UK-based group Military Families Against the War delivered a letter of claim to Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday demanding a full independent public inquiry into the deaths of their relatives and the...
Ziad al-Khasawneh , the Jordanian head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, claimed Monday that Iranian-backed Iraqi politicians are plotting to assassinate Hussein in prison. Al-Khasawneh based his claim on information received from a former Iraqi government official...
A Danish intelligence officer, Reserve Capt. Annemette Hommel, and four military police sergeants pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners . The military prosecutor, Benny Holm Frandsen, told a Copenhagen court that the soldiers...
In an escalation of the controversy over judicial nominations, the conservative group Progress for America began running television advertisements in six states Monday at the outset of a $3.3 million dollar TV ad campaign that will go...
A report released late Monday by Italian officials on the circumstances of the March 4 shooting of Italian agent Nicola Calipari after an Iraq hostage rescue has challenged a report on the same incident produced by US military investigators....
A landmark bill which would have allowed Kuwaiti women to vote and stand in municipal elections failed Monday in the Kuwaiti Parliament . Twenty-nine deputies voted in favor of the bill and...
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act on Monday, a bill designed to impose tougher punishment on child sex abusers. The bill was drafted in March after the body of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford...
