The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament approved a report Monday taking Turkey to task for slow progress on a variety of legal and other reforms agreed to by Ankara as part of its...

Federal prosecutors have asked that a judge sentence civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 30 years in prison, saying that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession ... deserves to be severely punished." Stewart was convicted [JURIST...

UK Home Secretary John Reid has promised to go ahead with Tuesday's planned deportations of 32 Iraqis who sought asylum in the UK, saying that only a court injunction will prevent the plane carrying the Iraqis from...

Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the United States During the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, September 4, 2006 [finding that the number of terrorism-related prosecutions has sharply declined in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied rumors Monday that a deal was underway to trade Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Shalit , an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants since June 25...

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , Mexico's leftist presidential candidate challenging the results of the disputed July 2nd presidential election , has told supporters that he plans to organize a constitutional convention to...

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned senior government and military officials that inflammatory statements some made about the recent conflict with Lebanon, such as advocating the bombing of villages that housed Hezbollah rebels, could lead...

Eight men allegedly involved in a plot to blow up US-bound planes leaving a London airport will probably not go to trial until 2008, prosecutor Colin Gibbs told the Central Criminal Court during a brief...

US military officials in Iraq said Monday that, despite press reports to the contrary, three soldiers killed earlier this summer near Mahmudiya were not involved in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl ...

The number of terrorism-related prosecutions has sharply declined in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks and less than half of those convicted on terror charges received prison sentences, according to a study released Sunday...