The head of a support group for families of Kuwaiti prisoners held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has said that American authorities have agreed to release five of the remaining eleven Kuwait prisoners held at...

Afghans voted in their first parliamentary elections in decades Sunday, without the significant violence feared by officials . Anti-government Taliban fighters had agreed not to attack civilian voters, but warned people to stay away from areas...

Widespread hunger strikes at the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are troubling senior US commanders and presenting serious challenges in managing the detainees, the New York Times reported Sunday. As many as 200 detainees...

Iraq's National Assembly Sunday signed off on what a senior lawmaker called the absolute final draft of the country's proposed permanent constitution , and said the text had been turned over to the UN for printing. Deputy...

Iran cautioned the International Atomic Energy Agency Sunday that a referral to the UN Security Council may encourage Tehran to begin uranium enrichment. Iran broke seals at a uranium...

Chilean President Ricardo Lagos enacted a new constitution for his country Saturday designed to improve the nation's democratic system. Chile's previous constitution was approved in a controversial referendum in 1980 under the military rule...

Nigerian President and current African Union chair Olusegun Obasanjo told the UN General Assembly Saturday at the opening of its regular 60th anniversary session that former Liberian president Charles Taylor, indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone...

A day after leaders attending the 2005 World Summit endorsed a modest package of UN reforms and policy initiatives, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Saturday pledged he would follow-though on what had been achieved, but...

A lawyer for Tariq Aziz says that an international petition has been started calling for the release of the former Iraqi Foreign Minister and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, currently being held by the US in Iraq without...

As part of a probe into the Hurricane Katrina disaster the US Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee has asked Gulf Coast federal prosecutors whether they have ever had to defend the US Army...