A Kuwait court Wednesday cleared Nasser al-Mutairi of committing an act of aggression against a foreign nation. Mutairi, the first Kuwait to be freed from Guantanamo Bay in January, had been charged with endangering Kuwait's foreign relations...

Al-Quds al-Arabi , a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, reported Wednesday that Saddam Hussein turned down an offer from US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to take the death penalty off the table in his upcoming trial...

The US-led Combined Review and Release Board created in August 2004 to expedite the screening process for detainees taken into custody in Iraq by US and Iraqi forces has so far approved the outright release of...

The intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to drop subpoenas against two journalists demanding that they name their sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a...

The son of late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , the architect of Canada's civil rights charter, denounced the Canadian government's controversial use of security certificates to indefinitely detain uncharged terror suspects in a court hearing...

Saddam Hussein's family has approached a leading London media lawyer about suing the Sun for publishing secretly-taken pictures of the former Iraqi leader in his underwear. Hussein's Iraqi lawyers also threatened to sue...

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday he would begin discussions with Attorney General Rory Brady about bringing London before the European Court of Human Rights for failing to release files about car...

The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a key vote in Parliament late Tuesday on the proposed national ID card plan , but its 66-seat majority was cut in...

US-born Israeli soldier Avi Bieber was sentenced to 56 days in jail Tuesday for refusing to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza . Military officials said the stiff sentence is meant to send a message...

A new report by a UN Commission of Experts says Indonesia's efforts to examine atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 was "manifestly inadequate" and show "scant respect for or conformity to relevant international standards,"...