Two weeks after the arrests of 17 Canadians on terrorism-related charges in the Toronto area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday announced that his government will step up anti-terrorism efforts in Canada by...

The upper chamber of the French parliament adopted a controversial immigration bill Friday after the French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure ...

Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the death penalty. Attorneys...

Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 [authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities...

US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong." Over 1000 pages of...

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a resolution authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of...

Nepal's government and the Maoist rebels on Friday agreed to draft an interim constitution within 15 days and dissolve the parliament reinstated by the popular people's uprising in April this year. Surprisingly, the Maoists ,...

Romania has concluded an investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons located near Romanian airports in Europe's "spider's web" of CIA rendition flights , finding no evidence that the country hosted secret prisons or...

During a two-day European Union summit in Brussels , German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Friday that attempts to revive the European Constitution will be delayed until 2008 and won't occur...

The UK Foreign Office on Friday took control of the case of Australian David Hicks , an accused Taliban member who has been detained at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay ...