Haditha investigator recommends dismissing charges against US Marine
A military investigating officer in the case against Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt , accused in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in November 2005, has recommended dropping all charges against...
Iraq draft oil law stalls after Sunnis, Kurds, Sadr Shiites balk
A contentious draft Iraqi oil law approved Tuesday by Iraq's cabinet stalled on its way to parliament Wednesday after Sunni and Kurd politicians and Shiite lawmakers associated with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr objected to...
Estate of executed inmate sues Ohio prison chief over botched injection process
The mother of Joseph Lewis Clark, a convicted murderer whose 2006 execution took approximately 90 minutes , Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Director Terry Collins of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ...
Former Guantanamo military lawyer on trial for leaking detainee names
The court-martial of the Navy lawyer accused of passing then-undisclosed names of Guantanamo detainees to a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) began Monday. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that Lt....
DOD ending TALON military database of domestic terror threats
US Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said Tuesday that the Defense Department's controversial Threat and Local Observation Notice system, or TALON database would be discontinued. Documents released...
Russia high court orders retrial for Yukos security chief convicted of contract killings
The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to overturn the 24-year sentence given to former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for organizing a series of contract killings, including...
Israeli use of US-made cluster bombs may have violated arms export laws: White House
The White House plans to tell Congress on Monday that Israel's use of US-made cluster munitions in southern Lebanon last year may have violated several decades-old agreements requiring that the weapons only...
Rights group urges investigation of child conscription in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is "complicit or willfully blind" to the child conscription efforts of the rebel group Karuna , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Wednesday that alleges the government has helped Karuna...
A senior Spanish judicial officer said Tuesday that 29 suspects accused of the 2004 Madrid train bombings are scheduled to go on trial in February 2007, with the proceeding ending by July and a final decision...
