California resident Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in a federal prison Monday following his 2006 conviction for supporting terrorism and lying to the FBI. Because Hayat had no prior criminal record, US...

Palestinian judges in the Gaza Strip who are unwilling to cooperate with local authorities will be replaced, Hamas spokesmen said Monday in a bid to end a three-month judicial stalemate. The Gaza Strip judiciary, under...

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced Monday that 25 defendants facing war crimes charges have begun a coordinated hunger strike , demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of...

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell Monday urged senators to pass long-term legislation to "modernize" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , contending that a permanently-revised FISA is critical to fighting...

An Iraqi judge and spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal said at a Baghdad news conference Monday that the execution of three former Saddam-era Iraqi officials sentenced to death for their role in the 1988 Anfal Campaign...

The United States and other western countries repeatedly impeded efforts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to arrest Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic , according to the...

Several inmates of a federal penitentiary in New York have filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to remove religious and spiritual books from prison chapel libraries, according to the...

The Supreme Court of Indonesia has awarded former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto the equivalent of $129 million in damages in Suharto’s defamation suit against Time Magazine ,...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has modified its Automated Targeting System to limit its ability to track persons who may be considered a security threat when they travel abroad. Under regulations that went...

The Bangladeshi interim government lifted the complete ban on all indoor political activity Monday, ahead of scheduled voting reforms talks between the country's election commission and its political parties. The ban was issued by the...