UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard told the BBC Monday that he will recommend that the UN withdraw as a mediator in the Middle East unless action is taken on human...

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani defended the legality of the semi-autonomous Kurdish government's Kurdistan Oil and Gas Law in an interview aired on Al Jazeera Sunday, faulting the Iraqi national government in...

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the House will vote on a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers [ANCA backgrounder;...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in a case where the Court will consider what constitutes money laundering, specifically whether the government must prove an intent to make money received...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) secretly issued hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to obtain financial, telephone and Internet records without court approval, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Sunday when it...

The trial of 30 suspected terrorists accused of plotting to explode the Spanish National Court in Madrid began Monday. The defendants are charged with membership in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack and forgery....

Emadeddin Baghi , founder of Iran's Society for Defending Prisoners' Rights , was arrested on charges of violating national security, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday. An unnamed government official told IRNA that Baghi and...

Erik Prince, founder and owner of private security firm Blackwater USA , said Sunday that his company welcomes the ongoing US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into the killing of 17 Iraqis...

Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz Sunday ordered a new criminal investigation into the activities of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert while he was serving as the country's trade minister from 2003-2006. According to a justice ministry...

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Saturday called on citizens worldwide to "break the silence" and pressure their governments to help apprehend Sudanese war crimes suspects in Darfur for prosecution by the...