Boy forced by Taliban to become would-be bomber is pardoned
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14-year-old's testimony shows apparently growing tactic to use children against enemies.
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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Four men accused of planning to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro have been pardoned by Panama's president.
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Six terrorists involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 received appropriate sentences Wednesday. A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years
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A man convicted of helping the Taliban was found guilty and sent back to prison Thursday for violating parole by traveling to Belize with a fake Mexican passport.
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The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.
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Three Americans &#151; led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support &#151; were found guilty Wednesday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from an Afghan prison after paying a bribe.
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An Iranian woman at the centre of in a notorious murder case is pardoned by her victim's family.
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A 'wannabe suicide bomber' was yesterday found guilty of a series of terrorist offences.
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The founder of South Korea's Daewoo Group, who had been given a lengthy jail term for his role in one of the world's largest corporate failures, was pardoned Monday under a traditional New Year amnesty.
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Bahrain&#39;s king pardoned a human rights activist who convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison Sunday in a case linked to criticism of the prime minister.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan have freed 81  Taliban prisoners from a jail at the Bagram air base, north of  the capital Kabul, the Afghan chief justice said on Sunday.
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A Slovenian presidential envoy jailed for spying in Sudan is given a presidential pardon.
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The alleged British terrorist behind a plot to blow up transatlantic planes slipped his handcuffs in Pakistan
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Yemen has commuted to house arrest the prison term of a mastermind of al Qaeda's 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy vessel after he surrendered to Yemeni authorities, his relatives said on Friday.
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An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail for involvement in last year's bombing of a hotel, but acquitted him of helping plan the 2002 Bali attacks.