Law and Disorder: Iraqâs Legal System Staggers Beneath the Weight of War
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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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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.
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NEW YORK A federal judge in New York has given the government a month to release records about how prisoners in Iraq are treated. US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein says officials have moved at a &quot;glacial
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The court-martial of an Army officer who refused to deploy to Iraq ends in a surprising legal stalemate
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MAHMOUDIAH, Iraq -- This bloody and lawless region south of Baghdad illustrates the destabilizing results of a hands-off approach to Iraqi trouble spots.
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Baghdad&#39;s most notorious prisoner, Saddam Hussein, does not have much to do most days. His one court appearance in 10 months has come and gone.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security vacuum and engage in a bloody power struggle.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said here on Thursday that the US-led war against Iraq has undermined international law. &quot;I regard the invasion of Iraq as undermining
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BAGHDAD -- Death squads move with impunity after curfew. Abductions are rampant, but kidnappers are rarely caught. Corruption has poisoned government, yet few have faced criminal charges.
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Two military guards implicated in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq were good soldiers caught in a muddled chain of command at a chaotic prison, their lawyers
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Built on a sprawling complex developed by Saddam Hussein in a failed bid to bring the Olympic Games to Baghdad, the so-called judicial Green Zone brings together courts, police and cells &#151; all behind tall blast walls topped with razor wire.
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Defense attorneys for a military police soldier charged with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued in court that their client was a pawn in a widespread policy of abusive military intelligence procedures, citing two extensive Pentagon  investigative reports released last week as evidence that the soldier was following orders.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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Until Steven D. Green was charged with raping an Iraqi woman and kiling her family, his life seemed as unremarkable as the flip-flops and Johnny Cash shirt he wore to court: He was a high-school dropout from a broken home who joined the Army to get some direction, yet was sent home due to an &quot;anti-social personality disorder.&quot;
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A new National Intelligence Estimate paints a grim view of the violence and political situation facing the United States in Iraq
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Along with a recent spike in deadly violence in Iraq, a classified US government report paints a bleak picture of Iraq&#39;s immediate future.
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Evidence of more prisoner abuse in Iraq comes to light after the US military is forced to release it by the courts.