A Turkish criminal court Monday accepted the indictment of 196 defendants, including four retired military officers, over an alleged coup plot. The 2003 Balyoz Security Operation Plan , or "Sledgehammer"...

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monday convicted Marko Boskic of committing crimes against humanity in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The conviction comes after Boskic...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday granted a request for bail by Canadian-born media mogul Conrad Black . The court granted bail following last month's ruling [opinion, PDF;...

Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday refused to recuse himself from a case in which he has already overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling...

Syrian Minister of Education Ghiath Barakat issued a directive Sunday forbidding students and teachers at universities from wearing the niqab . The ban applies to both public and...

The lack of a concrete legal mandate for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) , constant infighting within the intelligence community and an unprecedented expansion of resources and intelligence-gathering capacities following the 9/11 attacks have...

The National Security Services in Sudan (NISS) are brutally suppressing internal dissent and targeting rights workers in the process, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report issued Monday. AI documented cases of arbitrary...

An Oklahoma district judge issued an injunction Monday morning extending a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a new law that requires women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound and hear...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court announced Monday that an agreement with the US, allowing Swiss bank UBS to disclose account information of clients suspected by the...

The former defense lawyer for Australian ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Sunday that his former client should be cleared of all links to terrorism because he never committed a crime. The lawyer, Steve Kenny,...