UK lawmakers will investigate whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has secretly held terror suspects on a sovereign British territory in the Indian Ocean, the Guardian reported Friday. The House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee...
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Serbian police arrested four members of the Scorpions paramilitary group suspected of crimes committed in Kosovo during Serbia's 1998-1999 war with ethnic Albanian separatists, the Serbian Interior Ministry announced Friday. Several members...
The Canadian government is trying to derail a lawsuit over whether the Canadian Army in Afghanistan is transferring custody of detainees to Afghan forces to face torture by bogging it down with a flurry of technical arguments,...
Former Argentinian coast guard officer Hector Febres went on trial Thursday on charges of kidnapping and torturing four people at the Navy Mechanics School during Argentina's Dirty War . If convicted, Febres...
Israeli military Brigadier General Yair Golan received a reprimand Thursday after an investigation by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) into allegations that Golan improperly used Palestinians as human shields. Golan, commander of the...
The first military officer to face court-martial for aiding the enemy since the 2003 Iraq invasion was found not guilty Friday of aiding the enemy by providing a cellular phone to detainees. Former US military...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wants access to thousands of people that have been detained in Myanmar in an ongoing crackdown on opponents of the ruling military junta, ICRC Director of Operations...
Three telecommunications companies have declined to provide information to Congress about the role they played in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program , citing White House objections to their disclosures, national security and pending...
Former Alaska state Representative Tom Anderson was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for his conviction on seven counts of bribery and corruption by an Anchorage federal jury in July. Anderson, a Republican, was...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) secretly issued hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to obtain financial, telephone and Internet records without court approval, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Sunday when it...
