Americans guilty of Afghan torture
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An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that reverberates on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.    The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past fraud conviction, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, to 10 years in jail...
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WASHINGTON A just-completed army criminal investigation has implicated 28 active-duty and reserve personnel in the homicides of two Afghan men detained at the US air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, in December 2002, and describes potential offenses ranging
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three Americans accused of torturing prisoners at a private jail played videos at their trial yesterday showing a top Afghan official pledging his full support to the alleged vigilantes, then sending his security force on a raid with them.
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The US says many of the prisoners it is holding in Afghanistan will stand trial under Afghan law.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Two U.S. soldiers pleaded  guilty on Tuesday to charges of abusing Iraqi inmates at Iraq's  Abu Ghraib prison by stomping on fingers and toes, and, in  another incident, humiliating naked rape suspects.
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A US couple are found guilty of forced labour for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their home.
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Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday.
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Five former Guantanamo Bay inmates were found guilty on Wednesday of terrorism-related charges by a French court and sentenced to one year in prison.
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KABUL: An Afghan man was found guilty on Saturday of killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, and sentenced to death.
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Twenty-eight US soldiers have been named in an Army investigation into the December 2002 deaths of two Afghan detainees in American custody in Bagram, Afghanistan.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court Judge said on Friday.
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PUL-I-CHARKI, Afghanistan  - Hundreds of  Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taliban against U.S-led  forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States  were released from an Afghan jail Sunday after nearly three  years as prisoners of war.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Australian cowboy accused of fighting with the Taliban against U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan pleaded innocent to war crimes charges Wednesday before a U.S...
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Australian accused of fighting for Taliban tells panel he is not guilty of war crimes. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A military review panel at the US Navy base in Cuba heard the cases Wednesday of two
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 -- An Afghan man accused of killing three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague in 2001 was found guilty on Saturday and sentenced to death. He had said that his gang was acting on the orders of a top Taliban commander.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.