Law Enforcement
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:52
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that after a preliminary investigation she believes that acts attributed to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are likely crimes against humanity.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:38
A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for one of the most notorious arms dealers of its brutal 11-year civil war, but a justice official later said the ally of imprisoned former Liberian President Charles Taylor had already been kicked out — raising Western fears he will never be tried.
Adding to the confusion, his native Senegal denied it had received him.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 07:48
A US jury has recommended that three Somali pirates be sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 killing of four Americans off the coast of East Africa.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 15:10
The Cabinet has decided that the pro-Morsy sit-ins in two main Cairo squares constitute a "threat to national security.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 14:56
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri slammed U.S. treatment of hunger striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay and said the group would spare no effort to free them, according to an audio recording posted on the Internet on Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 07:33
About 100 inmates out of more than 1,100 escaped convicts who fled during a prison riot in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have been recaptured, according to officials.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 07:31
Since the ouster of Morsi at the hands of Egypt’s military and the subsequent crackdown on Islamists, there has been “a sharp uptick in violence in the relatively lawless Sinai region,” with attacks on security forces and Christian.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 15:05
Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 14:33
Power cuts in Sana’a were once largely limited to hour-long rolling blackouts. But as the central government’s already fragile hold on much of the country unravelled amid the 2011 uprising against former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the government proved unable or perhaps unwilling to prevent power line sabotage.