Federal prosecutors indicated they will drop manslaughter charges against a Blackwater security guard involved in the September 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi to six years in prison for his role in the unrest that followed the disputed presidential elections.
Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans are advising police in Salinas on “counterinsurgency strategy” in the wake of deadly gang violence in the California city.
Richard Colvin, a former diplomat with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, testified that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons were likely tortured—and many of them were innocent.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense says it is launching an independent inquiry into allegations that soldiers tortured and killed Iraqi prisoners at Camp Abu Naji in 2004.
The Argentine Senate approved a law that would authorize the government to obtain DNA samples from individuals suspected to have been born to forced disappearance victims
The Pishtaco, a bogeyman from Peruvian folklore, stepped into the light of day with arrest of a gang in Huánuco that reportedly kills victims to sell their fat on an international black market.
The governments of Colombia and Venezuela traded angry words again following the bombing of two footbridges connecting the two countries by Venezuelan guardsmen.
The CIA ran a secret prison inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, official sources told ABC News. Lithuania’s parliament has opened an investigation.
The UK’s High Court ruled that documents on the possible torture of ex-Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed at the hands of the CIA in Pakistan in 2002 must be released.
Iran’s judicial authorities plan to investigate the death of a young doctor who had testified before parliament about prisoner abuses in the aftermath of the disputed election.
A group of Israeli soldiers disobeyed orders to assist in the dismantling of two wooden structures that Jewish settlers had built without Israeli government authorization near Hebron.
