Lawyers representing the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole have filed court papers asking US District Judge Robert G....

A UK jury Monday sentenced five men to prison terms ranging from seven to 17 years for aiding the perpetrators of the failed July 21, 2005 bomb attacks on London's transit system evade arrest. Ismail Abdurahman,...

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday called for Kenya to establish a truth and reconciliation commission in hopes of soothing underlying social and ethnic pressures that erupted into violence in the wake of January's...

Four Kurds accused in Syria of separatism were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by Syria's Supreme State Security Court (SSSC), independent rights group National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said Monday. Two of...

A lawyer for British national Simon Mann , alleged to have plotted a coup against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, accused Zimbabwean officials Monday of criminal conspiracy to kidnap after Mann was...

The French Senate and National Assembly voted 560-181 at a special parliamentary session Monday to pass an amendment to the French Constitution that paves the way for France to...

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr Monday argued that the US military commission responsible for trying him lacks jurisdiction over the case , saying that Khadr did not commit a war crime...

The European Commission (EC) said Monday that new EU members Bulgaria and Romania must do more to achieve judicial reform and fight corruption and organized crime. An interim report on Bulgaria criticized Bulgarian efforts...

The Moscow City Court on Monday rejected the appeal of exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky . Berezovsky has been sentenced to six years in prison, after being found guilty last November of embezzling...

Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea made his first public appearance before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday, though the court quickly adjourned the pre-trial hearing. The...