Touring south Beirut Sunday, United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the damage to civilian areas caused by Israeli airstrikes was worse than he had anticipated and reemphasized that attacking civilians...

US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices even in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal , and military lawyers brought in to brief interrogators erroneously told them that the Geneva Conventions...

Less than half of lawyers hired to work in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since 2003 have a background in civil rights, according to resumes obtained by the Boston Globe through a Freedom of...

Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying...

The Russian Supreme Court Friday ordered the release of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov pending trial for allegedly diverting funds equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars to his personal use and...

Charges have been dropped against a Pennsylvania National Guardsman accused in the February 15 shooting death of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi , a city west of Baghdad. Prosecutors recommended...

Kuwait's high court Saturday upheld a May lower court decision acquitting five Kuwaiti citizens formerly held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay of alleged connections with al Qaeda. The five men were...

A spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that citizens should show respect for the law as the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary continues to evaluate the results of...

A new federal lawsuit has been filed against banned American military contractor Custer Battles and two former Pentagon officials alleging that the defendants tried to bypass a suspension order against the contractor by setting up shell companies...

The US Court of International Trade ruled Friday that the US must abide by a North American Free Trade Agreement panel ruling that improper duties were levied on Canadian softwood lumber used in US...