US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered a clarification of rules on how US troops are to respond if they witness mistreatment of detainees by other forces. The request is a result of the confusion that occurred...

Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio announced Tuesday that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet will face a new round of human rights charges. As the judge continues to investigate Pinochet's role in Operation Colombo ,...

The chief United Nations investigator leading the probe into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri will leave his post on December 15 after submitting his final report to the UN, a...

The US Army Monday dropped charges against an officer who was charged with murder for giving permission to soldiers serving under him to kill two Iraqi civilians, including an Iraqi teenager who was suffering from...

Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was charged with rape Tuesday in Johannesburg Magistrate's Court and was freed on 20,000 rand bail until the case opens on February 13, 2006. A family friend who viewed Zuma...

China on Tuesday denied the findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak who, after a two-week visit to China, criticized the country for the widespread torture and abuse of prisoners....

The US held eleven captured al Qaeda suspects at two secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe until media reports exposing the existence of the prisons shut down the facilities last month, ABC News reported Monday. The prisoners...

"Witness A," the first woman to testify in the Saddam Hussein trial , gave her testimony Tuesday behind a curtain and with her voice distorted by computer to protect her identity, despite some technical problems which caused...

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials in Mississippi knew that their response system had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and warned headquarters of riots, according to an eight-page document of e-mails released Monday by...

CIA-owned or operated planes made over 210 "ghost flights" through nearly 20 different British airports that may have been used to transport terror detainees being relocated as part of the US practice of extraordinary rendition, according...