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Iraqi Justice Minister Abdul Hussein Shandal has criticized the US military for arresting and detaining Iraqi citizens and journalists without bringing charges against them, and is calling for either amendment or discontinuation of a UN Security Council resolution [JURIST...

A prosecutor argued at the opening of a much-anticipated British court-martial Monday that seven British paratroopers patrolling in southern Iraq in 2003 killed an Iraqi civilian and abused others after stopping a truck carrying them...

The Chief of the US Army National Guard Bureau said Thursday in Washington that the National Guard was deploying over 4000 military police to support civilian law enforcement officers around New Orleans and elsewhere in the aftermath...

A revised draft of the Iraqi constitution was presented and read out to Iraq's National Assembly Sunday, but continuing Sunni objections to the charter's stance on federalism, de-Baathification and other...

Terrorist suspect Hilal Abdul-Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda on Friday lost a court battle in his bid to be allowed to return to the UK on the grounds that his human rights had been violated . Al-Jedda, who has both...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari met with several of the country's leading Shiite clerics in the city of Najaf Friday to discuss issues surrounding the Iraqi constitution. Jaafari said after a discussion with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani...

Leonard Clark, of the Arizona Army National Guard , has been demoted from Specialist to Private First Class and fined $1,640 for disclosing classified information on his Iraq weblog . Soldiers are allowed to maintain such sites...

After US officials applied itense pressure over the weekend, Humam Hammoudi, the head of the Iraq's constitutional drafting committee agreed Monday to adhere to the original August 15 deadline to complete the draft after the committee announced...

Lawyers for a man with both British and Iraqi citizenship argued before the London High Court Wednesday that his nine-month detention without charge is a rights violation . Hilal Abdul-Razzaq Ali al-Jedda was detained by US...

The US military command in Iraq Saturday announced charges against eleven US soldiers for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice by assaulting several suspected insurgents. The charges were filed Wednesday and came after another soldier...