Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that insurgents in Afghanistan are committing an increasing number of war crimes by launching attacks targeting civilians. In a 116-page report entitled "The Human...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled unanimously Monday that Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar should not have been barred from running in the country's April 21 presidential election by the Independent National...

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his former bodyguard Johan Tarculovski went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The two men, the only Macedonians...

Arafat Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was arrested Monday on corruption allegations, according to local media. Zia's elder son Tarique Rahman was also arrested on arrested [JURIST...

A Croatian county court in Osijek issued indictments Monday for seven persons, including a former parliamentarian, on charges of war crimes committed against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder, during Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia. Prosecutors...

The United States currently holds some 18,000 detainees in two US-run Iraqi detention facilities, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper , the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US military sources. In the past month, the US...

Writing Sunday in a Washington Post op-ed , US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied any impropriety on his part in the firings of eight US Attorneys . Two days before his scheduled Congressional testimony on the firings,...

Elections of governors and state officials in Nigeria Saturday were marred by violence and accusations of fraud in what has been called an "experiment" as the nation prepares for next week's presidential election . Newspapers...

A overwhelming majority of referendum voters in Ecuador Sunday appear to have approved the convening of a constitutional assembly to rewrite that nation's constitution , according to a Cedatos-Gallup exit poll. A plan initiated...

Russian police arrested dozens of protesters Sunday before and during a rally in St. Petersburg opposing the policies of Russian president Vladimir Putin for a second straight day. The arrests followed the detention of some 200 anti-Putin protesters [JURIST...