At least 24 former officials from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein have been released from jail, an Iraqi lawyer said Monday. The former officials released include Rihab Taha , the biological weapons expert...
A German court on Monday acquitted former Nazi commander Ladislav Niznansky on murder charges stemming from three World War II massacres in Slovakia. The 88-year-old former Slovak army commander faced 164 counts of murder in connection with...
The US House of Representatives early Monday morning passed legislation that would ban the torture of terror detainees and would require that detainees in US custody be treated humanely. The military spending bills also contain provisions that...
During a press conference Monday morning, US President George W. Bush defended his authorization of the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on US residents , saying he has the constitutional responsibility and constitutional authority as...
Eight detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have told their lawyers that they were tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan, according to report released Sunday by the New York-based Human Rights Watch . The detainees...
Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 17, 2005 [extending for two years the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused...
Defense lawyers for former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein and seven other former officials on trial are expected to call 40 witnesses, a prosecutor in the case said Sunday. Included among the 40 are three...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday called for a congressional investigation into the Bush administration's use of domestic spying on terror suspects. Reid called for an investigation and hearings into the intelligence program overseen by the...
Opposition parties in Kazakhstan on Sunday announced they have challenged the results of an election on Dec. 4 that saw President Nursultan Nazarbayev win another term. According to the opposition group "For a free Kazakhstan,"...
A Jordan military court on Sunday sentenced al Qaeda's chief in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and two others to death for a failed suicide bombing on the country's border with Iraq last year. Al-Zarqawi and one of...