Convicted Khmer Rouge commander dies
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Sam Bith, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla commander serving a life sentence for masterminding the abduction and murder of three Western tourists in 1994, died Friday, a government spokesman said. He was 74 years old.
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Shamil Basayev, the ruthless Chechen rebel leader responsible for terror attacks that led to the deaths of more than 800 people, was killed Monday when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded in this village of red brick houses next to a muddy field.
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fter years of delays, the Cambodian Parliament ratified an agreement with the United Nations today to create an international tribunal to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for
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Nuon Chea, 82, the top surviving leader of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, is to face an international tribunal in Phnom Penh.
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A former army commander twice accused of plotting to overthrow Haiti's government was shot to death in an upscale suburb of the capital, police said Friday.
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The murderous Khmer Rouge regime&#39;s most senior surviving leader was arrested Wednesday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country&#39;s long-delayed genocide trials.
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The leader of the Karen National Union, one of the biggest ethnic groups fighting Myanmar's military government, was killed Thursday in Thailand
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An Egyptian engineer who was convicted in  2002 of spying for Israel has died in jail of a possible heart  attack while serving a 15-year sentence, Egyptian security  sources said on Monday.
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A former Guantanamo Bay inmate who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release died Tuesday when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest, police said.
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Slobodan Milosevic's once- feared paramilitary commander was found guilty yesterday in the 2003 murder of pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, an assassination that shocked the nation and damaged the cause of democratic reform.
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Nuon Chea is the highest-ranking surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge to face charges for the regimeâs killings.
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Cambodia&#39;s legislature on Monday approved a long-delayed agreement to put surviving Khmer Rouge leaders on trial for atrocities that claimed nearly two million
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Gen Alain Le Ray, a leading figure in the Resistance who escaped from Germany's notorious Colditz Castle, dies aged 96.
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An Egyptian engineer who was convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, Egyptian security sources said on Monday.
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The last details of how former Khmer  Rouge leaders will be tried for their roles in the deaths of an  estimated 1.7 million Cambodians should be thrashed out by the  end of the year, a United Nations official said on Wednesday.
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A Vietnamese spy who worked for the CIA and Western media while remaining a communist agent dies.
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during the country's civil war, died on Thursday weeks before a verdict was due in his trial for war crimes.