Egypt sentences 3 extremists to death
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A state security court Thursday sentenced three members of an Islamic militant group to death for their role in several attacks in Egypt's Sinai peninsula that killed dozens of people in the past two years.
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Two Syrians have been sentenced to death and two others to life in prison for a car bomb attack and gunbattle that killed four people in Damascus, the official SANA news agency said on Thursday.
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CAIRO - An Egyptian court sentenced four outspoken newspaper editors to one year in prison with labor yesterday for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his politician son, drawing swift condemnation from human rights groups.
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Three South Africans were convicted on Wednesday for involvement in a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, and local media
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Egypt said Monday a Palestinian and a group of Bedouin Egyptians planned and executed the bombings in Taba that killed 34 people earlier this month.
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BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty on Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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A court in Yemen has sentenced one man to death and 14 others to prison terms for a series of attacks and terrorist plots in 2002, including the bombing of a French oil tanker.
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A Turkish court handed down life sentences to seven Al-Qaeda associates for their involvement in deadly suicide bombings against Jewish and British targets in Istanbul in 2003.
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Iran jails three Bahai followers for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic revolutionary system.
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Israeli troops mistook three Egyptian police officers for Palestinian militants and shot them dead yesterday along the Gaza Strip&#39;s border
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A Syrian security court sentenced two Syrians to death and another two to life in prison for their involvement in an April bomb attack and gunbattle in Damascus, a lawyer said on Thursday.
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Three Egyptian police are killed on the border after Israeli forces mistake them for Palestinian militants.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - A court has sentenced three former rebels to death for killing dozens of people while rebel factions jockeyed for power more than a decade ago, a government spokesman said Thursday.
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Seven members of a terrorist cell led by convicted Al-Qaeda &quot;dirty&quot; bomb plotter Dhiren Barot were sentenced to jail terms ranging from 15 to 26 years on Friday.
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Two men were sentenced to life in prison for the near-decapitation murders of three of their young relatives, slayings the judge said were meant to send a message to their families.
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Two Syrians have been sentenced to death and another two to life in prison for their part in an April attack and gunbattle that killed four people in Damascus, one of their lawyers said on Thursday.
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Cairo&#39;s high state security court will give its verdict on August 20 in a case in which 14 militants are alleged to have carried out attacks which killed three tourists, a court official said on Sunday.