A Serbian security official said Tuesday that Serb police had intercepted a cell phone conversation involving Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic , the strongest lead police have thusfar developed in...

Saddam Hussein has authorized three more lawyers to work with the four already representing him at his Baghdad trial for the 1982 massacre at Dujail that left as many as...

The Federation Council , Russia's upper house of parliament, voted 152-1 Tuesday for a bill first approved by the lower house last month that greatly increases state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by implementing strict registration...

The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday denied the appeal of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, ruling 3-2 in support of a lower appeals court decision...

Former Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is reported to be discussing his surrender with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , according...

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday he will seek a royal pardon from King Norodom Sihanouk rather than appeal the 18-month sentence he was given last Thursday following an in absentia conviction for two...

The first war crimes trial in the history of Afghanistan began Monday in Kabul as a former Afghan intelligence chief faced charges of authorizing the arrest, torture, and mass killings of hundreds of opponents of the country's Communist government...

An Iraqi court ruled Saturday that some 100 as-yet-publicly-unspecified candidates - most believed to be Sunnis - who ran in the December 15 Iraqi parliamentary elections will be struck and not allowed to serve in the next national assembly...

The government of Peru has approved 12 of the 17 charges proposed by the country's Supreme Court against former president Alberto Fujimori , currently detained in Chile after being arrested there in November...

French Judge Brigitte Raynaud has decided to open a formal investigation into accusations that French soldiers may have acted in complicity with Hutu militias who killed between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Several...