The United States is blaming Syrian President Bashar Assad for the growing violence spilling across the border into neighboring Lebanon, which already is burdened with 90,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war.
The U.S. military reached the grim count of 2,000 deaths, less than three weeks after the incident in Benghazi, Libya. Ex-Gitmo detainee Abu Sufian Bin Qumu led the "self-evident" terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
The Pentagon announced Saturday the transfer of a detainee from its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Canada, where he will serve out the rest of his eight-year prison sentence.
The military tribunals held at the isolated Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution, but most of the convictions so far have led to lighter-than-expected sentences.
A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship was elected Sunday as the first female president of Latin America's biggest nation, a country in the midst of a rapid economic and political rise.
A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al Qaeda militant pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders.
A smiling Omar Khadr appeared in a suit and tie Tuesday and greeted prospective jurors at the start of his trial, billed by defense lawyers as the first war-crimes prosecution of a child soldier since World War II.
American military officers were flying to Guantanamo Bay from bases around the world Sunday to serve as jurors for war-crimes suspects as the offshore tribunal system gears up for one of its busiest weeks under President Obama.
American military officers were flying to Guantanamo Bay from bases around the world Sunday to serve as jurors for war-crimes suspects as the offshore tribunal system gears up for one of its busiest weeks under President Obama.
