A Serbian court Monday convicted eight former members of special police unit that took orders from then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of killing ex-Serb President Ivan Stambolic in August 2000. The eight men were also...

In the wake of a lawsuit from groups including the ACLU and Greenpeace , the US Department of Justice has admitted that the FBI has thousands of pages of records on file...

TIME magazine reporter Matthew Cooper said Sunday in an article he has written on his grand jury testimony that Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby contributed information to the story revealing the identity of Valerie...

A Jordan Public Security Department spokesman said Sunday that five suspected al-Qaida prisoners started a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest sentences handed down by Jordan's State Security Court in 2000. The prisoners are being...

Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Warner (R-VA) are drafting a bill which would provide clear and uniform rules for detention, interrogation and prosecution of prisoners during wartime, according to a new...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has called for ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor, currently in exile in Nigeria, to stand trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 17 counts of...

In a greatly anticipated move, the government of Zimbabwe has published a draft bill proposing sweeping changes to the country's constitution , including the creation of a new two-chamber parliament. Shortly after the elections last year,...

A Serbian war crimes court Friday convicted and sentenced four former members of the Avengers parliamentary group to prison terms of fifteen to twenty years for their involvement in the 1992 abduction and murder of 16 Muslim men and...

An investigation conducted by the US Navy Criminal Investigation Services has found no evidence to support allegations that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainees were abused. In a letter written to Australian Prime Minister John Howard released...

The Iraqi Special Tribunal announced Sunday that it has filed its first formal criminal charge against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in connection with the 1982 killing of some 150 Shiites...