US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing , a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq , has pleaded guilty to going absent without leave for 14 months. A court-martial...

A bill allowing a referendum on whether to oust Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was defeated in the Taiwanese legislature Friday. Sponsored by the People First Party (PFP) , the bill accused...

A UK coroner's inquest ruled Friday that US troops were responsible for the "unlawful" killing of British reporter Terry Lloyd in Iraq in March 2003. Oxford Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker concluded that Lloyd, an award-winning reporter for...

A court in Japan has dismissed an appeal by 81 plaintiffs who argued that the visits of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to a war shrine honoring Japanese dead as well as war criminals...

Members of Britain's House of Lords Thursday voiced their support for an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill that would pardon 306 World War I soldiers who were executed for various offenses...

The Santiago Court of Appeals voted 16-2 Thursday to strip the immunity of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of a chemist who worked...

The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic terror threats database, according to documents ...

2006 Report on Human Rights, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, October 12, 2006 [describing the "continuing detention without a fair trial" of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba by US forces as "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in...

Reconnaissance du genocide armenien de 1915, French National Assembly, October 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the...