Air base break-in activists tried to prevent 'war crimes in Iraq'
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Two peace activists who broke into a British military air base in England said they did so to prevent US B-52 bombers taking off to commit &quot;war crimes in Iraq&quot;, a court was told.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba- Prosecutors and defense attorneys tested microphones and arguments Monday ahead of the first arraignments of suspected terrorists at the US naval base here, while human rights groups criticized the US military for barring
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein  appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what  he called U.S. efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers  said on Sunday.
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The continuing attacks on suspected gathering sites reportedly has forced the militant group to reorganize its leadership. BAGHDAD, Iraq - American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by associates of
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The US military in Iraq says warplanes struck a building in Fallujah Wednesday that is alleged to be a safe house for wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Four suspected Al Qaeda fighters will be formally charged with war crimes this week as the US military opens the first legal hearings for foreign prisoners captured during the war in Afghanistan and held at a remote US Navy base in Cuba.
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President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
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The system in Iraq for detaining, charging and trying suspects has become another weak link in the rule of law.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Army general who once ran detention operations in Iraq said a "conspiracy" among top U.S. commanders has left her to blame for the abuses of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison...
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In pushing for a bipartisan plan, they seek to avoid 'ownership' of the Iraq war.
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A group of Iraqi families launched a legal campaign Friday to force an inquiry into claims that British soldiers abused their relatives.
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American commanders are fully aware that Iraq's insurgents exploit their policy of employing locals on U.S. military bases but insist the practice will not stop, though some security measures may be tightened.
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BAGHDAD -- US military and Iraqi security forces have begun a massive effort to seal off Baghdad with a ring of reinforced checkpoints, berms, trenches, barriers, and fences, in an attempt to clamp down on insurgents, officials said yesterday.
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BAQUBAH, Iraq, Feb. 18 -- Helicopters hovered over the American military base here Sunday night, and the crackling of automatic gunfire echoed as U.S. forces attacked insurgents they believed were trying to plant an improvised explosive device, or IED, just outside the camp.
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Thousands of anti-war campaigners took to the streets of London Sunday calling for an end to the "illegal occupation" of Iraq by U.S-led coalition troops.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other US officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- In the week after Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, an angry group of townspeople went to the local military base alleging a "crime of war" and demanding an investigation, a military prosecutor said yesterday.