Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda insisted Sunday that the recent executions of three Roman Catholic militants convicted in 2001 of leading a Christian militia which killed at least 70 Muslims in 2000 ...
The US military plans to turn a new medium-security building at Guantanamo Bay into a maximum-security facility and enhance security in its existing structures at the military detention center, according to deputy commander Brig....
Corporal David Payne, one of seven British soldiers facing court-martial for charges relating to the abuse of Iraqi detainees, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of inhumane treatment, becoming the first British soldier to...
The number of violent crimes increased in 2005 for the first time since 2001, according to the 2005 annual report on violent crime published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Monday. The report...
Reported incidents of anti-Muslim bias, harassment, discrimination and violence in the US increased by 29.6 percent in 2005, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) , the largest US Muslim civil liberties group, announced Monday. A new CAIR report...
An Italian military tribunal in Rome has indicted three Italian soldiers for a 2004 attack on an ambulance in the town of Nasiriyah in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of four civilians, Italian newspaper Corriere...
The US Supreme Court will provide copies of oral argument transcripts on the Court's website the same day that cases are heard when the Court begins its new term on October 2, the court announced ...
Nine former federal judges sent a letter to Congress on Thursday raising concerns about a provision in the proposed Military Commissions Act of 2006 that, according to the judges, would "strip the federal courts of...
Two US congressmen on Wednesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia requesting Judge Emmett Sullivan to order the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) ...
UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells called for the redefinition of "war crimes" in light of the recent Mideast conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, during a Wednesday hearing of...
